Top 15 Quotes About The 17th Amendment
#1. The idea [passing the 17th amendment] benefited from a unique political and cultural atmosphere that consumed a nation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries-a progressive populism promoting simultaneously radical egalitarianism and centralized authoritarianism.
Mark Levin
#2. I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Lincoln Child
#4. What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#5. Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.
Marcel Proust
#6. It is very easy to get people focused on children.
John J. Mack
#7. Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.
Nicole Krauss
#9. Life was like a river, and the river flowed in one direction and one direction only. Sometimes it moved nice and easy through familiar territory; other times it became wild and turbulent and carried you to untamed lands. You either made the most of the ride or you didn't.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#10. The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
#11. He said he did it for justice, for the honor of his family and House. But this is revenge, and how hollow it seems.
Pierce Brown
#14. He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
Jerry Spinelli
#15. Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
Mark Messier
