Shreyashi Chakdar Quotes & Sayings

Sociologists of regulation - such people exist - talk about something called 'regulatory capture'. This is the process whereby a state regulator ends up promoting the interests of the industry it is supposed to monitor, at the expense of the public interest. It can happen for a number of reasons, and many of them are very human. For example, if you work in the technical business o f drug approval and pharmacovigilance, who can you chat to about your day's work? To your partner, it's all baffling and pedantic; but to the people in the regulatory affairs division of the companies you work with every day, they understand. You have so much in common with them. So industry bodies - not even necessarily the pharmaceutical companies themselves - might offer things as intangible as friendship, and opportunities to socialize. — Ben Goldacre

Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN — David Nicholls

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. — Rob Portman

She unconsciously pulled her sticky shirt away from her skin and grimaced, as if sweating through her clothes was distasteful. — J.R. Rain

The present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will. — Estela Portillo Trambley

One cannot say everything at once. — R.D. Laing

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. — Alan Paton

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. — Jodi Picoult

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children. — Jami Gertz