Mandatories Quotes

#1. If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#4. The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

#5. She blinks at me like I've lost my mind. Hell, maybe I have. "Are you insane?"
"Potentially," I say. "You?"
"Am I insane?"
I nod.
"I'm starting to feel like it," she mutters, running her hands down her face.

J.M. Darhower

#6. Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain.

Laura Ramirez

#7. Tyrants aren't born, they evolve, just as saints do, their characters slowly shaped over time, just as ours are.

Judith Arnopp

#8. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

#9. I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

Leeza Gibbons

#10. I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

Annie Potts

#11. Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.

May-Britt Moser

#12. But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

Charles Clarke

#13. One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Maya Angelou

#15. Could the toilet be showing the future?

Royal

#16. The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

Chris Daughtry