Elects To Quotes

#1. We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused.

Jon Krakauer

#2. We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

William James

#3. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

Alice Dreger

#4. The student who elects to risk it all - which is nothing - to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist.

Timothy Ferriss

#5. People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

Fran Drescher

#6. It's a natural progress, but still. That thing about the cow is so stupid. Do I look like a cow to you?

Meg Cabot

#7. Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.

Stephen King

#8. Communicatory inputs from the world can occur through any of the six primary sensory modalities at any time. The important thing is to first develop the capacity to feel the deeper meanings inside any of the sensory modalities, second to seek their meanings, and third to craft congruent responses.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

#9. Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

James Dashner

#10. If we think that democracy is a good thing, then we must believe that the public should know as much as possible about what the government it elects is doing. Snowden has said that he made the disclosures because "the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.

Peter Singer

#11. MacMillian narrowed his eyes at the man in the fedora. Neither he nor his friend looked a day older than nineteen, at most. "You're a ... minister?"
The man's lips twitched. "Of sorts.

Laura Oliva

#12. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

Richard Corliss

#13. If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

Salman Rushdie

#14. There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'.

Janeane Garofalo

#15. Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.

Roseanne Barr

#16. Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Tacitus

#17. I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

NeNe Leakes

#18. You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Kevin Keck

#19. Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Michael Moore

#21. Jesus doesn't rob you of being YOU. You don't somehow become less than yourself because Jesus' presence is larger in you. It's just the opposite; the more you surrender to Him, the more you become who the Father always intended you to be.

Rolland Baker

#22. Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address the fist. We'd all much rather take something for the pain and make it all go away.

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

#23. Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

Oliver DeMille