Bridgestor Quotes & Sayings

Writing often in the pages of the New York Times, Allison Arieff is a powerful spokesperson. "Bring back the sidewalk!" she urged in one of her articles, explaining: "Community is born from social routine - running into neighbors at the mailbox or while walking down the street. Design for these serendipitous encounters."8 — Bella DePaulo

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want. — Jennifer Weiner

The economic approach is both broader and simpler than that. It relies on data, rather than hunch or ideology, to understand how the world works, to learn how incentives succeed (or fail), how resources get allocated, and what sort of obstacles prevent people from getting those resources, whether they are concrete (like food and transportation) or more aspirational (like education and love). — Steven D. Levitt

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment. — Albert Belle

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. — Richard Wagner

Faith would get her through when she had to face tomorrow, but her grief needed the tears to fall. There was healing in those tears. — Dee Henderson

When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe ... governed by the sovereign will of God. — James Prescott Joule

Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married. — Ellen DeGeneres

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations. — Ludwig Von Mises

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry. — Charlotte Bronte

Some friendships fade. Others dissolve under stress or disagreement. Still other friends just leave. Those that stick, however, are almost irreplaceable; and the sadness of long life is losing friends. — Hugh Hewitt

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. — Julia Roberts