Fivethirtyeight Senate Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should. — Meg Cabot

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty. — Marquis De Lafayette

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us. — Wilbur Smith

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those! — Katherine Jenkins

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority. — Alexander Hamilton

There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that. — Dale Carnegie

Liebgott stuck the Luger between the mayor's eyes and pulled the trigger. The Luger misfired. Right when it clicked, this German went off running down the road. Speirs said, 'Shoot him.' One of our men shot and missed. I shot about thirty feet over the mayor's head. Another man brought him down. I won't say who. --Don Bond — Marcus Brotherton

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community. — Greg Bryk

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital. — James Bryce

To Live Large Is To Live The Kingdom Life — Sunday Adelaja

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes — Tacitus

No one has ever given me what you do.
I want to give you everything. — E.K. Blair

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge. — Jean Alesi

I've never played anyone but myself on screen. — Glenn Ford