Quotes & Sayings About Awesome Grandsons

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community. — Jacques Maritain

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission. — Robert Johnson

It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their profits from every square inch of the place means that there just aren't any scruffy little basement clubs left. Those scruffy little basement clubs were the areas lifeblood. Now, it's all penthouse flats and global brands. They destroyed the very thing that drew people there in the first place - it's superficial sleaziness. — Derek Ridgers

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women. — Helen Mirren

I love 'Skins'. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it. — Reece Thompson

It's extremely easy to be mean to people you don't really know. — Jason Carter Eaton

We really know time, says Heidegger, because we know we are going to die. Without this passionate realization of our mortality, time would be simply a movement of the clock that we watch passively, calculating its advance - a movement devoid of human meaning. — William Barrett

I started to question the wisdom of flying twelve time zones away to a place I had never even seen, based on a ten minute Skype interview. But I also considered myself committed. I was not willing to waste the plane ticket until I had seen the island and lived there for a time, maybe not a year as the contract with Gloria English School stipulated, but at least for a while. — P. R. Travis

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. — Michael Steinhardt

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar