#cons

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. ↗

— Richard Russo

#against #already #always #any #been

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#again #america #ask #asked #been

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#change #constitution #constitutional #convention #elemental

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#communicate #consensus #development #doubts #explain

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#always #angels #assistance #constantly #friends

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ↗

— George Santayana

#actual #artist #consenting #dream #dreamer

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#category #complete #consistently #grammatical #handled

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#consistent #expect #feel #i #i feel

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#conscience #constitution #draw #experience #good

I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#american #bush #conservative #conservative movement #country