Age Quotes - Page 12

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.