Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

Jonathan Davis

One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her print dress and white apron to array herself in blue and pearls, the day changed, put off stuff, took gauze, changed to evening, and with the same sigh of exhilaration that a woman breathes, tumbling petticoats on the floor, it too shed dust, heat, colour; the traffic thinned; motor cars, tinkling, darting, succeeded the lumber of vans; and here and there among the thick foliage of the squares an intense light hung. I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning. I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry.

Virginia Woolf

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

Louis L'Amour

You know the real trouble with Unix? The real trouble is that it became so popular. It wasn’t meant to be popular.

Donald A. Norman

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.

Basta

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

C.S. Lewis

Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Ambrose Bierce

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Edward W. Howe

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Henry David Thoreau