#con

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ↗

— Alan Coren

#choosing #consists #democracy #dictators #hear

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bury #deep #down #our #subconscious

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#just #made #materials #second-rate #you

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges. ↗

— John Corigliano

#challenges #conceive #different #different set #i

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#considers #else #father #his #husband

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#danger #glory #triumph #without

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#anyone #bore #certainly #claims #clear

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#clear #clear conscience #conscience #even #fairly

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed