Catherine Mayer Quotes

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
  • Me
  • Entertainment

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Nature
  • Age
  • Control

• You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • True
  • Dream
  • Giving

• Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • People
  • Women
  • Politics

• I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Long
  • Betrayal
  • Betrayed

• If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Action

• Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

  

  James Stewart
  • Eternity
  • Concerned
  • Believer

• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Strenght
  • Freeman
  • Hindered

• But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Know
  • Calendar
  • Christmas time

• We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Class
  • Top Down

• The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Choices
  • Successful
  • Election

• Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

  

  Brigid Lowry
  • Life
  • Miles

• It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

  

  Catherine Mayer
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