Age Quotes - Page 108

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

Managing by results only makes things worse.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America is 43 years of age. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis.

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.