Sortition Pros Quotes

#1. True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?

Erick Erickson

#3. Hard. I gasped, clinging to him as he entered me, feeling my body opening to him in a bright red burst.

Selena Kitt

#4. [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anaesthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

William Ernest Henley

#5. Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?

Bill Jensen

#6. Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.

M.L. Stedman

#7. Nobody, nobody is good enough

Joseph Conrad

#8. Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Plautus

#9. No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

Barack Obama

#10. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. - You're mine now; I hope you realize that, I said to her.
- I was yours from the moment you asked me what my name was, she smiled.

Sandi Lynn

#12. Beauty is not pretty.

Erwin Blumenfeld

#13. Words have power, for better or worse.
Like the smell of fresh rain on cut grass,
Or the stench of a decaying corpse,
Like the soft comfort of a warm blanket on your shoulders,
Or the agony of a dagger splitting your chest in two.
Use them wisely.

David Estes