Age Quotes - Page 114

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.