Foto Mature Quotes & Sayings

Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes. — Avinash K. Dixit

Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois. — Charles Baudelaire

You cannot save others until you first save yourself, — Cassandra Clare

Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots? — Erik Larson

If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher. — CLAMP

like the big bed it was enclosed in a permanent canopy of heavy netting. Mosquitoes were the least of the creatures this net was intended to exclude; its absence, at any time, night or day, would have been an invitation for snakes and scorpions to make their way between the sheets. In a hut by the pond a woman was even said to have found a large dead fish in her bed. This was a koimachh, or tree perch, a species known to be able to manipulate its spiny fins in such a way as to drag itself overland for short distances. It had found its way into the bed only to suffocate on the mattress. — Amitav Ghosh

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose — Richelle Mead

The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will. — Sheri S. Tepper

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. — P. J. O'Rourke