Democracy is a brawl settled in advance by counting heads.
– David P Gontar
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- If you want more opportunities you have to become an opportunity for others. As you advance yourself your opportunities advance too. – Bryant McGill
- The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there. – David P Gontar
- It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. – Tom Stoppard
- Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur. – Michael Chabon
- Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire. – Katherine McIntyre
- Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire. – Katherine McIntyre
- I’m not saying you’re weak, but you brawl like a couple of girls having a pillow fight. – Andrew Sturm
- It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it – David Guterson
- The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. – Alfred E Smith
- The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts. – Charbel Tadros
- Everybody should be equal in a democracy – that is the nature of a democracy. – Christina Engela
- Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr
- A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more. – Edward Abbey
- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
- Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day. – David Kuklis
- We have the St. Vitus’ dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still – Henry David Thoreau
- The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time. – Charlaine Harris
- Dear sirs, The cold war isn’t over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.Sincerely,Patriot – Benson Bruno
- I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books. – Garon Whited
- Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women – Virginia Woolf
- What counts that we’re not counting? – Frank Sonnenberg
- A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy. – Elizabeth George
- Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Don’t waste dollars counting cents. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem. – Anita Johnston
- Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am. – Anthony Liccione
- If you always try to measure yourself withmoney… well, it’s like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you’ll have to show for it. – Steven J Carroll
- How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk. – AD Posey
- He knew the saying was -œthe way to a man’s heart was through his stomach,- he was kind of counting on it working the other way around. – Samantha Chase
- You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
- I made a note to talk to him about soft drinks. Those beverages are not healthy.from counting by 7s (not listed in drop-down) – Holly Goldberg Sloan
- When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining. – Holly Black
- A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses – AJ Jacobs
- Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few. – Jean M Grant
- I think it’s early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you’re counting, you’ll notice the earlys outnumber the lates. – Jennifer Niven
- I think it’s early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you’re counting, you’ll notice the earlys outnumber the lates. – Jennifer Niven
- One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. – Bobbie Ann Mason