Girvan Academy Quotes & Sayings

Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic. — Lars Feld

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy — Nelson Mandela

No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game. — Tim Kurkjian

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.' — Bartlett Sher

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy. — Alan Watts

No matter how long it takes, never give up on your dreams — Phoenix Summers

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over. — Joan Jett

I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to. — Beverly Williams

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality. — Andre Gide

The way he's looking at me is like I'm the only beating heart in the world. — Brenna Yovanoff

And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows. — William A. Rusher

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is. — John Ralston Saul

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. — Ambrose Bierce

Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip. I prayed for wind shear effect. I prayed for pelicans sucked into the turbines and loose bolts and ice on the wings. On takeoff, as the plane pushed down the runway and the flaps tilted up, with our seats in their full upright position and our tray tables stowed and all personal carry-on baggage in the overhead compartment, as the end of the runway ran up to meet us with our smoking materials extinguished, I prayed for a crash. — Chuck Palahniuk

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want. — Denis Waitley