Elgard Ungh Quotes & Sayings

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. — Nancy Pearl

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there. — Bill Gates

If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones. — Malcolm Gladwell

Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities imply. So the sweetness of the moment loses something of its sweetness later on when you're reminded of the odds these children face and of the ways injustice slowly soils innocence. You wish you could eternalize these times of early glory. You wish that Elio and Ariel and Pineapple could stay here in this garden of their juvenile timidity forever. You know they can't. You have a sense of what's ahead. You do your best to shut it out. You want to know them as they are. You do not want to think too much of what may someday be. — Jonathan Kozol

The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal. — Brian Tracy

I want to stay. i pray to stay. i close my eyes and wish to stay — David Levithan

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. — Jonathan Swift

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants. — Jose Serrano

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. — Albert Einstein

With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything. — Niki De St. Phalle

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not. — Barbara Corcoran