Kozol Amazing Quotes & Sayings

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. — Lope De Vega

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why. — Tove Lo

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. — Julian Clary

'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. — Jonathan Kozol

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. — Adam Clarke

I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too ... — L.M. Montgomery

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book. — Jonathan Kozol

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. — Margaret Atwood

'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter. — Jonathan Kozol

The world can be a big, cold place. No reason we can't give each other a hand and ease the way a bit. — Karen McQuestion

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am. — Casey Neistat

Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders. — Erwin Rommel

Be kind to every person you meet because we don't know their battles. — Zelda La Grange

I thought I was happy. I thought my life was fine. And then you came along, and nothing . . . nothing makes sense anymore. — Jojo Moyes

If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them. — Jonathan Kozol