Mainwaring Archive Foundation Quotes

#1. The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

Nick Earls

#2. By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Kurt Eichenwald

#3. If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.

Thomas Berry

#5. I want people to know if they have any hurting in their back, or any tingling or anything like that, go see a chiropractor and help yourself feel better about your body and take some of that pain away.

Jerry Rice

#6. Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.

Amartya Sen

#7. Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.

Hafez

#8. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

Ted Cruz

#9. It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

Will Smith

#10. If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#11. A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

Ray Wilkins

#12. All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Karl Marx