Reapportionment Quotes & Sayings

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties. — Bonnie Friedman

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. — Chief Seattle

Say yes to the feelings, even as you say no to the behavior. — Daniel J. Siegel

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine. — Charles B. Rangel

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. — Moritz Gudemann

The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.) — Dick Morris

The world is brimming with plaster replicas, and the point is to smash them to bits, to create an upheaval so acute it cannot be anticipated or resisted. — Rikki Ducornet

Generally, we admire the thing we are not. — Stephen Fry

There is a story about Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. One day his older brother died, and a newspaper got the story wrong and printed Alfred's obituary instead. Alfred opened the paper that morning and had the unusual experience of reading his obituary while he was still alive. "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday," the obituary began. Alfred threw down the paper. That's not how I want to be remembered, he said. That's not what's important to me, he said, and right then and there he decided to throw his entire fortune into rewarding people for bettering this world and bringing it closer to peace. — Alan A. Lew

My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting — Rick Riordan

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system. — Joschka Fischer

I wondered how all those people in the states who tried to sound tough, saying that the u.s. should go in here, bomb there, take over this, attack that, would feel if they knew that they were indirectly responsible for babies being burned to death. — Assata Shakur

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish ... that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more'. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink? — Anthony Hopkins

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender? — Francis Chan

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process. — Carol Moseley Braun

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe