Elective Quotes

36 quotes by 29 authors

A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and… — Henci Goer
I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have. — Sandra Bernhard
When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I… — Kim Coates
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… — Henry Louis Gates
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are… — Al Gore
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as… — Salman Rushdie
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or… — James Madison
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. — Jonathan Franzen
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. — Thomas Jefferson
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to… — Robert Charles Winthrop
When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been… — Chris Toumazou
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error -… — Matt Gonzalez
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or… — James Madison
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge… — Ted Morgan

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