Myrrha Plant Quotes & Sayings

One continually hears the declaration that the direct primary [for legislative offices] will take power from the politicians and give it to the people. This is pure nonsense. Politics has been, is, and always will be carried on by politicians, just as art is carried on by artists, engineering by engineers, business by businessmen. All that the direct primary, or any other political reform, can do is affect the character of the politicians by altering the conditions that govern political activity, thus determining its extent and quality. The direct primary may take advantage and opportunity from one set of politicians and confer them upon another set, but politicians there will always be so long as there is politics. (Cited in Key 1965, 394-95) — Marty Cohen

I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful to my readers for everything they've done for me. — Sarah J. Maas

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level. — Zainab Salbi

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. — Alexander Smith

My name is Matthew Swift. I'm a sorcerer, the only one in the city who survived Robert Bakker's purge. I was killed by my teacher's shadow and my body dissolved into telephone static and all they had left to bury was a bit of blood. Then we came back, and I am we and we are me, and we are the blue electric angels, creatures of the phones and the wires, the gods made from the surplus life you miserable excuse for mortals pour into all things electric. I am the Midnight Mayor, the protector of the city, the guardian of the night, the keeper of the gates, the watcher on the walls. We turned back the death of cities, we were there when Lady Neon died, we drove the creature called Blackout into the shadows at the end of the alleys, we are light, we are life, we are fire and, would you believe it, the word that best describes our condition right now is cranky.
Would you like to see what happens when you make us mad? — Kate Griffin

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules? asked Patty wearily. — Jean Webster

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair. — George Santayana

Demagogues thrive in dim light. — Garrison Keillor

The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing, and they're making a killing. — Timothy Griffin

I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun. — Daphne Oz

The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave. — Sunday Adelaja

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing. — Maya Angelou

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens. — Daryl Hall