Duverger Quotes & Sayings

They have successfully navigated the time-space continuum with work that today is still relevant and cutting edge," he said. "You look at the work and think, 'This is how people lived in the past, are living now and will live in the future.' Then you wonder how future people will make sense of the image. — New York Times

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show. — Vincent De Paul

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime. — Dennis Kozlowski

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel

For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. — Anonymous

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary. — Peter Greenaway

Jean ValJean. I hated that fucker. — Bill Belichick

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice — Ozwald Boateng

The worst part of the potato blight was that it didn't go away. After the 1845 crops failed, people counted on the potatoes of 1846 to pull them through, but those potatoes rotted away, too. For some reason the crop of 1847 survived, but not enough fields of potatoes had been planted to produce enough food for everyone who needed it. And in 1848 the blight reappeared with a vengeance. — Ryan Hackney

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel. — Chris Evert

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. — Elton Trueblood

Regent's Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown. — Mick Herron

What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy. — Rick Elkin

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge. — Horace