In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.
Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.
Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.
There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
