Mangione Family Enterprises Quotes & Sayings

What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? — William Shakespeare

If you want to get more from life, then give more. — Debasish Mridha

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A. Wallace

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years. — Steve Cropper

Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

the challenge of cheering a troubled soul is compelling, each fleeting smile worth a hundred hours of a lesser suitor's happiness. One — Kate Eberlen

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have. — John Steinbeck

Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer" without a doubt ensures one a status of far greater weight than being "a woman of color who writes" ever does. Imputing race or sex to the creative act has long been a means by which the literary establishment cheapens and discredits the achievements of non-mainstream women writers. She who "happens to be" a (non-white) Third World member, a woman, and a writer is bound to go through the ordeal of exposing her work to the abuse and praises and criticisms that either ignore, dispense with, or overemphasize her racial and sexual attributes. Yet the time has passed when she can confidently identify herself with a profession or artistic vocation without questioning and relating it to her color-woman condition. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future. — Ban Ki-moon

I knew then that I'd been right. I had felt something changing between us in the weeks before my death - slow and steady - but just hadn't wanted to admit it. A distance had been brewing, all chilly and gray. I'd chosen to sit and watch the storm clouds gather instead of running for cover at the first hint of rain. And I had paid the price for waiting. Because the storm became a hurricane. — Jess Rothenberg

I don't believe in regret. — Sadie Jones

The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We'd all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. — David Sedaris

Look upward to him
Look to him for everything
Look to him for help
Look to him for comfort — April Nichole

In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple. — Frank Pittman