Biroul Electoral Judetean Quotes & Sayings

I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. — Newt Gingrich

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart. — Pema Chodron

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. — Roger Sherman

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse! — Anne Beatts

I have found that traditional school settings are hostile to children who live under constant stress and duress. I resent the idea that, just because it is "free," public education is the first choice. Public education is one choice among many, but it is not the norm against which other schooling options are to be graded. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

A weathered cork sat inside the box lined with green velvet. It had turned a darker brown and was a little shriveled, but the name Moet & Chandon was still clearly visible.
Vivien reached inside and pulled out her mother's cork. The one she'd searched for in the bed of red impatiens. To anyone else, it was nothing. Just a weathered piece of nothing. To Vivien, it was everything. — Rachel Gibson

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love. — M.F.K. Fisher

It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings. — John D. Caputo

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time — Rick Riordan

In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that other
people are not doing. — Sunday Adelaja

...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way. — John Ortberg

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu

You want to win everything you are in. — Brian O'Driscoll

If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate. — Ron Carlson