#isa

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

Tis not your time, my love,” he whispered. “You will not die tonight.” “Never,” I said to him, “for I have been blessed by Death’s Eternal Kiss. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella-s-imagination #seduction-and-scandal #death

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#disappointment

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. ↗

— John Bonham

#brick #brick wall #come #disastrous #fill

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#always #believe #disappear #i #never

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#crafted #democrats #our #partisanship #platform

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ↗

— George C. Williams

#biological #century #disappeared #foster #last

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#changeless #disadvantages #find #least #left

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#bipartisan #i #i believe #i believe in #manner

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#because #clearly #curious #defined #i