Polycentric Governance Quotes & Sayings

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. — Walter Savage Landor

You don't have to be so chaste, you know. It's not like I'm naked." Pausing in front of her closet, she looked back at me, her expression canny. "You haven't seen me naked, have you?"
"No!" My answer came out distinctly rushed.
She grinned at my lie and pulled some jeans from the closet floor. "Well, unless you want to see me now, you'd better turn around. — Maggie Stiefvater

I am a great female scientist. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained. — Martin Freeman

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography. — Ron Chernow

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden. — Anita Shreve

What is the universe but a treacherous perversion of scale? — John Zande

A lot of people had to die for me to be me. — Frank Costello

You're Facebook friends with Tiny?" "Yes. He request-friended me," Mom says, epically failing to speak Facebook. — John Green

I was nine months old the first time Mamaw saw my mother put Pepsi in my bottle. — J.D. Vance

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. — Adam Weishaupt

Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions? — Martin Amis