Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
WENDY MASS Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
WENDY MASS Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.
WENDY MASS What is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths...
WENDY MASS A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolv...
WENDY MASS The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how ot...
WENDY MASS When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to t...
WENDY MASS Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i...
WENDY MASS I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolore...
WENDY MASS No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition ...
WENDY MASS I'm going to ask Bree if she'll help me."
"I'm a little scared if her," I admit.
"Me too,"...
WENDY MASS When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wif...
WENDY MASS Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sou...
WENDY MASS Before an apple tree is planted, no one will know how many apples will one day sprout from it. It's ...
WENDY MASS Best friends always know when the other's lying.
WENDY MASS We are all connected at a deep, chemical level. We are all connected to the universe, and the univer...
WENDY MASS The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
WENDY MASS Sometimes people think they are looking for the meaning of life, when really they are looking for an...
WENDY MASS Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the quest...
WENDY MASS The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.
WENDY MASS Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. Maybe they're just meant to be accepted.
WENDY MASS I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.'
Withou...
WENDY MASS If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the E...
WENDY MASS We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop ...
WENDY MASS fMr. Oswald places the telescope on the desk in front of us. "This," he says proudly, "Is a Broadhur...
WENDY MASS I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue...
WENDY MASS Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars
WENDY MASS I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's al...
WENDY MASS Life is short...eat desert first!
WENDY MASS A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples ...
WENDY MASS The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.
WENDY MASS If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.
WENDY MASS Some of the materials that we have in foods, like proteins and carbohydrates, are also used in paint...
JENNIFER MASS I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, an...
WENDY DAVIS As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
WENDY CARLOS People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
WENDY LIEBMAN One rose says more than the dozen.
WENDY CRAIG When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in f...
WENDY ROBIE I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw...
WENDY LIEBMAN I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phylli...
WENDY LIEBMAN My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
WENDY LIEBMAN I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were s...
WENDY LIEBMAN Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
WENDY LIEBMAN My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience see...
WENDY LIEBMAN I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
WENDY LIEBMAN We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, t...
WENDY KOPP Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers impro...
WENDY KOPP More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high ne...
WENDY KOPP All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designe...
WENDY KOPP We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest a...
WENDY KOPP Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than...
WENDY KOPP The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters...
WENDY KOPP Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers...
WENDY KOPP We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence ...
WENDY KOPP Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education...
WENDY KOPP Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration statu...
WENDY KOPP Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary sc...
WENDY KOPP I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
WENDY KOPP People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some o...
WENDY KOPP Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that the...
WENDY KOPP There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconc...
WENDY KOPP We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools ne...
WENDY KOPP We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of...
WENDY KOPP People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
WENDY KOPP When you're young, you're stupid.
WENDY HILLER Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
WENDY HILLER I was unbelievably lucky.
WENDY HILLER I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, a...
WENDY HIGGINS I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes,...
WENDY HIGGINS I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the s...
WENDY HIGGINS I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
WENDY DAVIS Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo...
WENDY DAVIS Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with ...
WENDY DAVIS While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few faci...
WENDY DAVIS I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or fo...
WENDY DAVIS Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
WENDY DAVIS We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you...
WENDY DAVIS I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
WENDY DAVIS Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's e...
WENDY DAVIS When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get t...
WENDY DAVIS As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GO...
WENDY DAVIS When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from...
WENDY DAVIS We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels...
WENDY DAVIS I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say...
WENDY DAVIS I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi...
WENDY DAVIS I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, eve...
WENDY DAVIS I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard w...
WENDY DAVIS I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate ...
WENDY DAVIS Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
WENDY DAVIS One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That'...
WENDY CRAIG There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi...
WENDY COPE The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour...
WENDY COPE Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop...
WENDY COPE In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot...
WENDY COPE I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're g...
WENDY COPE I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
WENDY COPE Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
WENDY COPE I like a quiet life.
WENDY COPE I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset ...
WENDY COPE I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, ...
WENDY COPE Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make t...
WENDY COPE I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to...
WENDY COPE I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change...
WENDY DAVIS Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care o...
WENDY DAVIS I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.
WENDY WHELAN Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to ...
WENDY DAVIS Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision tha...
WENDY KOPP He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
WENDY WASSERSTEIN You need to be flagrantly insouciant.
You care way too much.
And because of that you will...
WENDY WUNDER I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
WENDY COPE Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your sto...
WENDY COPE One rose says more than the dozen
WENDY CRAIG No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get fr...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the bui...
WENDY KOPP Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and i...
WENDY KOPP I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a ...
WENDY KOPP We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages ri...
WENDY KOPP Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have ...
WENDY KOPP On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic n...
WENDY KOPP Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yours...
WENDY WHELAN I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
WENDY COPE Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha...
WENDY KOPP Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort....
WENDY KOPP Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a...
WENDY BRANT Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been...
WENDY KOPP Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power...
WENDY DAVIS Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend...
WENDY KOPP Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in ...
WENDY WHELAN It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from coll...
WENDY KOPP The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s...
WENDY DAVIS It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect...
WENDY DAVIS I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
WENDY HIGGINS Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering th...
WENDY KOPP I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ...
WENDY WHELAN This is our home tonight. Anywhere with you is my home.
WENDY HIGGINS Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education ...
WENDY KOPP Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to ...
WENDY KOPP Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
WENDY KOPP In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not ...
WENDY KOPP In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
WENDY MAGRUDER I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away ...
WENDY ROSE People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
WENDY LIEBMAN To meet this deadline, my marching orders are to seek to conclude this comprehensive agreement by th...
WENDY CUTLER These issues have basically been untouched in this area before. Why is this area the exception? We n...
WENDY VASQUEZ They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to ...
WENDY LONG Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big ...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN We're not at the stage yet where investors are panic-stricken by any stretch of the imagination. Con...
WENDY STRUB Career counselors on campus don't necessarily give graduates the tools they need to build rewarding ...
WENDY ADAMS It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of...
WENDY HALL It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of...
WENDY HALL I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question...
WENDY KAMINER When we'd look at our budget for the last couple years, we were unable to pay our operating services...
WENDY KRAJEWSKI Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperi...
WENDY KOPP I'm numb from the toes of my left foot to about the top of my rib cage, and then I do get some visio...
WENDY BOOKER My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money
WENDY LIEBMAN Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent gr...
WENDY KOPP Most of the kids weren't afraid and knew all about proper oral hygiene. The staff also did a great j...
WENDY LOMBARDI Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas a...
WENDY DAVIS The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and...
WENDY LONG You have to be more aggressive, for sure. I also think a three-day tournament kind of lends itself t...
WENDY WARD The Tommy brand has lost a bit of its luster.
WENDY LIEBMANN The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, t...
WENDY LONG It would be like a shooting outside Macy's. It was so public, most of the victims were bystanders an...
WENDY CUKIER Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in c...
WENDY KOPP Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ...
WENDY PARKS I fell in love with her; she was just adorable,
WENDY WHITE In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad...
WENDY KRAMER In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad...
WENDY KRAMER There's no question that the charge would be first-degree premeditated murder. The grand jury could ...
WENDY MURPHY People want a celebrity designer they trust and an esthetic to tell them what color and couch goes w...
WENDY LIEBMANN Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling peopl...
WENDY BENCHLEY [Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Pos...
WENDY SMITH People only sign up if they're willing to be found. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. We wan...
WENDY KRAMER Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, t...
WENDY KOPP We seemed to be in a hurry in the first half, especially in trying to get the ball inside to Dominiq...
WENDY PRICE It's certainly part of our cultural heritage, ... We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60...
WENDY EVANS We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. And certainly, sp...
WENDY LAWRENCE Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on wom...
WENDY WRIGHT We're disturbed by ... lack of concern on the medical safety,
WENDY WRIGHT Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry,
WENDY WRIGHT When a drug is easily available, it is a public health hazard to women.
WENDY WRIGHT In any scenario in which a woman would be taking the morning-after pill she needs medical interventi...
WENDY WRIGHT Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increas...
WENDY WRIGHT It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. Mak...
WENDY WRIGHT It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. A 1...
WENDY WRIGHT We can't deprive the paying members of their golf, even for an ex-president.
WENDY ALLEY Steve will never put her in front of a camera. He's adamant that she not appear on camera anywhere.
WENDY PRICE In general we have to be very attentive to the fact that hunting rifles and shotguns in the wrong ha...
WENDY CUKIER If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more cl...
WENDY WRIGHT For those employees who want to remain with Radio Shack, (the company) will do its best to transfer ...
WENDY DOMINGUEZ They're just complementary in our minds. We want to be in all the places where our customers are. We...
WENDY CLARK She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to...
WENDY MILLER