The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Gianni Agnelli

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett, "The Arnold Benn

God is the heart of my mind, body, and soul triad.

L.M. Fields

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Stephen King

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Joseph Roux

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Cassandra Clare

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.

Virginia Woolf

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.

Blaise Pascal

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Billie Holiday

I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

Mary Lou Retton

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

James Dean

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Robert Townsend