Age Quotes - Page 102

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.

The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things.