Quotes about counterpart (16 Quotes)



    If Smith was unsure whether his glass was half full or half empty then his counterpart was also struggling to figure it all out. I'm happy with the result but not the performance, ... We tried everything. We pressed and pressed so congratulations to the Italian team. We tried many ways to attack but Scotland played well.

    The totality of our being is not only the part which we at present call our person, for this totality also includes another person, a transcendent counterpart which remains invisible to us, what Ibn Arabi designates as our 'eternal individuality' our divine name.


    The Image is not outside him, but within his being better still, it is his very being, the form of the divine Name which he himself brought with him in coming into being. And the circle of the dialectic of love closes on this fundamental experience 'Love is closer to the lover than is his jugular vein.' So excessive is this nearness that it acts at first as a veil. That is why the inexperienced novice, though dominated by the Image which invests his whole inner being, goes looking for it outside of himself, in a desperate search from form to form of the sensible world, until he returns to the sanctuary of his soul and perceives that the real Beloved is deep within his own being and, from that moment on, he seeks the Beloved only through the Beloved ... the active subject within him remains the inner image of unreal Beauty, a vestige of the transcendent or celestial counterpart of his being....



    Samuel Sewall is America's counterpart to his slightly older contemporary, Samuel Pepys. Both men were essentially humane and humorous pragmatists, honest about themselves and endlessly inquisitive about what makes other people tick. Both started keeping diaries in the 1660s. Sewall, unlike Pepys, kept his up for more than 50 years, filling it with frank, earthy, often touching detail We can actually feel life's slither as it slides through our fingers, and his, ... Sewall was inventing what it is to be a private citizen.



    That (is) the gist of our challenge, that the National Environmental Policy Act and its state counterpart, the California Environmental Quality Act, are on the books to influence how decisions are derived, not to be applied after they're decided.

    I have been in discussion with my counterpart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Jim Prentice and I am encouraged that Canada is taking steps to resolve this situation.


    We were notified this morning by the Air Accidents Investigation Bureau, an arm of the Civil Aviation Authority that in light of the latest information available to it that it and its French counterpart would tomorrow recommend that the certificate of airworthiness should be suspended, ... As soon as we heard this, we immediately withdrew the supersonic fleet from service.

    This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

    We have reached a deal. We have an understanding. I have confirmed with my counterpart in Libya that we are still very much in business, and we are proceeding according to plan.




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