Wonkish Def Quotes & Sayings

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative. — Martin O'Malley

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. — John Avlon

As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies. — Adam Nicolson

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

Sin is like that. Whether you know what you're doing or not, there is damage. There are consequences. The holiness of the Lord requires justice for these consequences. It demands a covering for them. At the same time. He is merciful with our mistakes. So he Himself gives us that covering by providing us with the sacrifice. — Tessa Afshar

Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve. — Romina Russell

Any second can be the beginning of anything; any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis. — Paul A. Offit

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own. — Becky G

The bourbon goes into the recipe, Miss Connor, not into you," he'd said from directly behind me. He had a way of doing that, catching me in the act. I suppose the number of times I screwed up made me an easy mark.
My spine straightened at the scolding, but my mouth did what it knew best. "Well, that's just a waste of perfectly good bourbon if you ask me. — Jenny Lyn

People were saying, Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her. So some of her female students went and printed Full Human Being on T-shirts. I guess it made her well-known. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?" and the answer is usually: You weren't. Psychologists call that state of deluded madness "narcissistic love." I call it "my twenties. — Elizabeth Gilbert