Akrawi Grand Quotes & Sayings

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit. — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPT
Don't be friends with jerks. — R.J. Palacio

If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys,
to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, it is all about being broken open, allowing ourselves to
step out from out hardened veneers and expose our core, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable in our emotional response to the world. And how can we not respond? This is what I mean by being 'broken open.' To engage. To love. Any one of these actions of the heart will lead to a personal transformation that bears collective gifts. — Terry Tempest Williams

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. — Nicolas Chamfort

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. — Ruth St. Denis

The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons. — Jo Nesbo

Always do more than is required of you and then God will give you such opportunities that you have never dreamed of before. — Sunday Adelaja

Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart. — Hui-bin Jang

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs. — Roger McGuinn

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. — Marie Rutkoski

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. — Amy Tan