#close

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#achievement #change #close #educators #gap

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed. ↗

— Angie Stone

#closed #cooked #dinner #door #feet

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#came #closely #electronics #employment #engineer

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families. ↗

— Jill Bennett

#being #biggest #change #closeted #dollars

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#came #closely #decisions #did #focus

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. ↗

— James McGreevey

#closet #constituency #god #honest #living

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#could #hardly #i #suitcase #thick

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#bad news #being #close #delivering #fail