Age Quotes - Page 112

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."