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Tag Name "Countered" (21)

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My apartment's only about a block away. Isn't that handy. Fate, he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. Fantasic, isn't it? One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.
Nora Roberts
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You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.
Richelle Mead
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There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
Steig Larsson
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Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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You don't have to do this, Kat. I've been hearing that a lot lately. He's right. I didn't say who had said it, she countered. You didn't have to. He looked out at the water. You two are good together. We're not together, Kat said automatically. Sure you are. You just don't know it yet.
Ally Carter
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The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.
Chris Hedges
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Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.
Diablo Cody
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My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
Georgette Heyer
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It was brave, countered Issa. It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.
Laini Taylor
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[Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.
Peter Sagal
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Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile there. 'Well at least not in such a public setting.'- Dimitri Belikov
Richelle Mead
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What's so funny? Bella mumbled. I got food in her hair, I told her, chortling again. I'm not going to forget this, dog, Rosalie hissed. S'not so hard to erase a blond's memory, I countered. Just blow in her ear. Get some new jokes, Rosalie snapped.
Stephenie Meyer
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Have you tried? Tove countered, his eyes sparkling. Well...no, I admitted. Do it. How? He shrugged. Figure it out. You're really good at this training thing, I said with a sigh.
Amanda Hocking
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...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.
David Gemmell
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I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
Errol Flynn
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Oh yeah, you’re a regular sage. Shouldn’t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?” “Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?” he countered.
Jacquelyn Frank
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When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.
John Calvin
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The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.
Merle Shain