Jonathan Kozol Famous Quotes
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
Jonathan Kozol Quotations
"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys."
William Arthur Ward
"The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."
William Shakespeare
"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."
Andrew Schneider
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Alexandre Dumas
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
Anatole France
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen."
John Sloan Dickey
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
H L Mencken
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc