#elective

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#i #like #surgery #you

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#corruption #currency #elective #elective office #fail

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#cases #convictions #elective #exposes #hospitals

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#because #big #black-and-white #contact #down

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. ↗

— Roy Romer

#better #caliber #colorado #coming #going

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#better #better chance #chance #elective #hereditary

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#completely #credibility #fundamental #fundamental problem #judicial

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. ↗

— Shelley Long

#everyone #i #i think #people #selective