Age Quotes - Page 105

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.