Cross Purposes Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their…
— Richard Siken
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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
Who Wrote These Cross Purposes Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Cross Purposes Quotes as follows: