Valadao For Congress Quotes

#1. Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

Alan Hirsch

#2. We could be dead,' said Eli.
'That's a risk everyone takes by living.

V.E Schwab

#3. Women who don't like the rules change the rules.

Toni Sorenson

#4. Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Publilius Syrus

#5. It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#6. If Congress is unable to do its job and pass a federal budget, then I do not believe we should receive a salary.

David Valadao

#7. The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

Tacitus

#8. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

Victoria Alexander

#9. Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

Francis Quarles

#10. I found the secret of life to be body placement.

Brian Williams

#11. *Saving the best for last* is only OK if you're sure of when you're going kick the bucket. Otherwise, I'm afraid, you could be *Saving the best for dust.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. The artist must say it without saying it.

Duke Ellington

#13. Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Richard Allington

#14. Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Steve Burns

#15. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

Wendy J. Dunn

#16. I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley