#bent

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#also #anytime #apparent #because #campaign

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#how #looks #matters #merely #oar

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#could #doing #else #entertainment #entertainment industry

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. ↗

— John Negroponte

#bent #contrary #democratic #elections #i

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#control #economic #economic engine #engine #incumbent

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. ↗

— Origen

#bent #devoted #divine #god #life

Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#advantage #against #bouncing #conscious #country

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#come #content #dreams #hope #hundredth

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#common #common mind #education #forms #inclined