One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season,… — Jason Kidd Copy Share Image
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent,… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
