Milletvekili Aday Quotes & Sayings

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off. — Simone De Beauvoir

Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her. — Rick Riordan

Failure is a fatality that carves the road to success. — Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free. — Sandra Byrd

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. — John Mayer

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself. — Taylor Momsen

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. — John Lancaster Spalding

Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself. And what is any number, itself, but just another unit of measurement? What is a 'six' but two 'threes', or three 'twos' ... half a 'twelve', or just six 'ones' - which are what?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson) — Mort W. Lumsden

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The balanced state of body and mind that occurs through zazen practice can also occur spontaneously in other situations. As a musician I used to find it when playing onstage. All consciousness of myself and the outside world would vanish, to be replaced by a fluid state of action alone, in which thought and feeling ceased to be important and in which sense of self and other utterly dissolved. Athletes often experience moments like this. So do artists of various kinds. So do many people involved in a whole range of activities to which they have fully devoted themselves. And so, quite often, do lovers engaged in sex. — Brad Warner

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons. — George R R Martin

Most people don't live; they just race. — Jean Webster

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. — Jennifer Garner

Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian, — Deborah Harkness