Retrospective Voting Quotes & Sayings

A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome. — Tina Samples

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture. — Rita Ora

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. — Christie Hefner

Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half. — David Brooks

It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life. — Shannon Noelle Long

In real markets, agents make bad choices. They are often ignorant, misinformed, and irrational. Yet, markets tend to punish agents for making bad choices, and they tend to learn from their mistakes. For instance, if you fail to pay your bills, your credit rating declines and you have a harder time getting loans. If you fail to do research and buy an unreliable car, you suffer from repair bills. In contrast, when people in government make bad choices, the political process almost never punishes them. Studies show that voters are terrible at retrospective voting - they do not know whom to blame for bad government - and so politicians are not punished for making bad choices. — Jason Brennan

And just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort. — James Herriot

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that. — Bryan Singer

It was really exciting to see how 'Bridesmaids' was accepted and how well it did. — Lauren Miller

to do wrong for the wrong's sake only — Edgar Allan Poe

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. — Eric Hoffer

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born. — Jello Biafra

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed. — Bo Burnham

We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them. — Christopher Pike

Focus on your goals, not your fear. — Roy Bennett

I think maybe love can just ... dissolve."
"No, it does not," her mother said.
"So how do
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"You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go. — Kristin Hannah