Mansbridge Era Quotes & Sayings

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling. — John Bonifaz

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians. — Buddhadeva Bose

See you tomorrow," he said, instead.
"All right." Then, impulsively, I asked, "Do you have a place to sleep tonight?"
"Sure," he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be.
I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don't know why it works that way, but it does - at least in my experience. — Patricia Briggs

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life — Candace Bushnell

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. — Sally Mann

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. — Ani DiFranco

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent. — Ashwin Sanghi

I always said I preferred to experience something rather than obsessively record it. — Gayle Forman

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it. — Estelle Fanta Swaray

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow. — Emil Zatopek