Grand Maman Quotes

#1. We cannot choose, he thought, the people we're born into nor what they teach us. So that opposition exists, and appears to us as evil. It is part of life, and sorrow is its natural consequence.

Karen Fisher

#2. [It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

Pankaj Ghemawat

#3. We come into this world in the waters and leave it in the winds

Omar Khayyam

#4. The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

George Polya

#5. Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

Plutarch

#6. I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Vladimir Kramnik

#7. You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

Paul Haggis

#8. The Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims.

Bernard Cornwell

#9. If you would live, you must die;

Robert Jordan

#10. The child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Joan Didion

#11. Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Rene Descartes

#12. I love that you call me when you are agitated. I am honoured by your trust. I find, too, that I can be imperfect with you. Such a relief."(65)

Kevin Mwachiro