Electively Quotes & Sayings

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art. — Alec Monopoly

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house. — Lil Boosie

The match was over before it began. When the game is fixed, how do you avoid losing? — Rick Yancey

Nobody wins until we all do. — Laurie Beth Jones

And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. — Nicholas Sparks

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't. — Marc Andreessen

You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right. — Lang Leav

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth. — Haruki Murakami

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them? — Arthur Findlay

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird, — Daniel Norris

We live in a country where you can electively have your nose broken to reshape it, inject fat from your butt into your face to look younger, but pushing a baby out of your own vagina can be restricted. — Ann Brasco

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. — Debra Winger

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way. — Teresa Of Avila