Grandly Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans. — Isha Judd

The question then was not what other countries were doing, but why. Why did these countries have this consensus around rigor? In the education superpowers, every child knew the importance of an education. These countries had experienced national failure in recent memory; they knew what an existential crisis felt like. In many U.S. schools, however, the priorities were muddled beyond recognition. Sports were central to American students' lives and school cultures in a way in which they were not in most education superpowers. Exchange students agreed almost universally on this point. Nine out of ten international students I surveyed said that U.S. kids placed a higher priority on sports, and six out of ten American exchange students agreed with them. Even in middle school, other researchers had found, American students spent double the amount of time playing sports as Koreans. — Amanda Ripley

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we? — April Winchell

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. — Havelock Ellis

We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in. — Annie Leonard

Oh, who was she kidding? She wasn't fucking lucky. But hope sprang eternal, for whatever stupid reason. — Stacia Kane

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. — William Gilmore Simms

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead? — Karen Marie Moning