Close Elections Quotes

#1. You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Bill James

#2. Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

Ron Fournier

#3. The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...

Peter Heller

#4. Does our reading life balance or subvert our waking life?

Ander Monson

#5. Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Benjamin Rush

#7. I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

Wanda Sykes

#8. My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

Pema Chodron

#9. Government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Camille Paglia

#10. Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

William Temple

#11. Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.

Asne Seierstad

#12. When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

James Baker

#13. Lincoln was shot by a two-bit actor who was exercising his right to bear arms.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

Lucy Powell

#15. Are there really people on this earth who deliberately set out to do evil things? Who say to themselves, I want to hurt people, to inflict all the pain I can, to make their lives impossible?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#16. Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.

Farshad Asl

#17. Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Francis Quarles

#18. I'll make up for all the years
I was supposed to be kissing you.

Leo Christopher