Age Quotes - Page 124

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

We're not savages. We're English.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.