Federalized Elections Quotes & Sayings

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person. — Jeremy Corbyn

I felt my weakness; I knew my smallness. Being raised under anger, the voice of a child is lost. — Kara Tippetts

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow

Dear God, be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small. — Kathy Harrison

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose, — Jonathan Franzen

Stories are masks of God.
That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.
Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.
Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.
So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them. — Melanie Tem

In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't. — Michael Schoeffling

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions. — Joe Perry

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity. — Emily Bronte

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next! — Jules Verne

I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got. — Meghan Daum