Grotenhuis Group Quotes & Sayings

The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

How did we get here? My own suspicion is that we are looking at the final effects of the militarization of American capitalism itself. In fact, it could well be said that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a giant machine designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures. At its root is a veritable obsession on the part of the rulers of the world - in response to the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s - with ensuring that social movements cannot be seen to grow, flourish, or propose alternatives; that those who challenge existing power arrangements can never, under any circumstances, be perceived to win. — David Graeber

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. — Benjamin Disraeli

The gift within every gift is always opportunity. — Steindl Rast David

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life. — Margot Fonteyn

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself. — Thierry Henry

Why be elated by material profit?" Father replied. "The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee. — Paramahansa Yogananda

When a man plans, a woman laughs. — David Wong