City Councils Quotes

#1. There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

Josephine Tey

#2. We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

George McGovern

#3. When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance of who we elect to our city councils, who sits on our local board of education committees, who we pick to represent us in Congress, in the Senate and more.

Al Sharpton

#4. On local city councils being effective: The job of the council is to get together and debate and discuss. But you do it in a way that preserves the relationships so that we can get together next week and do it again.

Thomas L. Friedman

#5. Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Livy

#7. What a City Council should do, and what it will do, don't always
match up.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#8. I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.

Jonathan Powell

#9. If you want to be happy, all you have to do is be happy.

David Zinczenko

#10. Despite his size and broad-shouldered build, there was a feline quality about him ... he was like a lazy but potentially deadly tiger.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#12. I'm only doing one more," Ruby said, scrolling through her phone. "Nobody likes a day-drunk hussie."
"Hey, give yourself some credit. You'll be a really cute day- drunk hussie.

Daniel Younger

#13. For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed ... it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Edward Feser

#14. I don't subscribe to any religion so it didn't matter to me if I prayed in a shrine, temple, or church. Butbe cause I was asking for so much I assumed Buddha and the Christian God wouldn't even listen

Novala Takemoto

#15. Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

James Patterson

#16. And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lonely whisperings and rustlings and the pattering of feet. The air was sweet with the smell of flowers.

Tove Jansson