Cross Purposes Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against… — Leigh Brackett
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more… — Abraham Lincoln
Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a… — Jean Liedloff
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The… — Jean Baudrillard
Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness,… — Jesse D. Jennings
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves. — Indira Gandhi
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a… — Joan Didion
Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isnâ€™t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their… — Richard Siken
Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house… — James Gleick

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