270 Winchester Quotes

#1. A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

Bill Gates

#2. If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.

John Quincy Adams

#3. Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

Gore Vidal

#4. Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Eminem

#5. To say my day was not going well, would be like saying the French Revolution had been a bit troublesome for Marie Antoinette.

Nichole Chase

#6. Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

Van Morrison

#7. Don't you like when the winter's gone,
And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm?
The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh,
And the sun and sky be lookin' their best ...

Biz Markie

#8. Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.

Martin Jacques

#9. Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

George Eliot