Ballots For November Quotes

#1. I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

Greg Bryk

#2. If crisis is the first voice pushing all things, then habitualisation is its echo: the second voice, a whisper, the itch that keeps things moving when they do not really want to, or do not really have to.

John Zande

#3. Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Life for all its gains
pierces in ways that leave scars,
where I've bled, I've lived

Jim Ross

#5. I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Marlene Dumas

#6. An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

Radhanath Swami

#7. Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

Moon Unit Zappa

#8. It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

Mario Monti

#9. Nina might not be able to put you back, you know. Not without another dose of parem. You could be stuck like this."
"Why does it matter?"
"I don't know!" Jesper said angrily. "Maybe I liked your stupid face.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. With Truths comes reality

Marcelle Hinkson

#11. Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.

Sylvia Plath

#12. And on it flows. I long to lie down quietly by the banks of a blue lake and die ... and when I'm dead for my body to be consumed by birds and beasts, leaving only the bone of my brow for Xu ... like Alexander, loyal to an everlasting love.

Qiu Miaojin

#13. People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

Stephen R. Lawhead