Granddaughter Great Grades Quotes & Sayings

Be More Than Just Consequences of Your Past — Philippe De Woot

Any intervention, such as that of the German Reichsbank in the Spring of 1923, in which only a small part of the increasing note-expansion was recovered by the banks through the sale of foreign bills, would necessarily be unsuccessful. Led by the idea of opposing speculation, inflationistic governments have allowed themselves to become involved in measures whose meaning is hardly intelligible. Thus at one time the importation of notes, then their exportation, then again both their exportation and importation, have been prohibited. Exporters have been forbidden to sell for their own country's notes, importers to buy with them. — Ludwig Von Mises

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were. — Louis Auchincloss

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere. — Sarah Silverman

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication. — Richard Bach

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.' — Mallory Ortberg

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. — James Hansen

How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered. — Ragnar Lodbrok

As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan. — Frances Mayes

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. — Euripides

[To an author who asked his opinion of his writing]
I have found only three things wrong with your work, the beginning, the middle, and the end. — George Bernard Shaw

Likewise the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought. — Albert Camus

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways
either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. — Dalai Lama XIV

My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering. — Klaus Lackner

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. — Jose Saramago