Famous quotes containing the words cope, candidates and/or elected:
“If I werent reasonably placid, I dont think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, youve got to be absolutely like a horse.”
—Joan Sutherland (b. 1926)
“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I was elected a Captain of Volunteersa success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)