16 Quotes by Mark Wallace

But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote.

Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.

Any historian knows...that possibilities and history are connected. It's not simply our hard work, but that we lived in circumstances in which prosperity wasn't taken away. For most people, for most of history, it's not true that religion, work and love have led to successful, happy lives. Instability, fear, disease, and war are so much more common that our lives are tremendous exceptions. Isn't that miraculous?

I need to get in line,' I said.'Should I walk up with you?''No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.''What if I want to?''I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't.

From a planning perspective, the community was cheated in having a longer amount of time to plan a response.

We're obviously going for an integration that hasn't been done before. Some work on integration going on with particular pieces in Canada, the US and my old group in the UK but we're taking a bigger slice now.

It is a letter that would have drawn my attention immediately. Every effort we were doing would have tied directly into that.

I will not accept that there has not been a focus on student achievement in this district. That's not fair.

Our focus isn't to make engineers. Our focus is to make everyone technologically literate.