Age Quotes - Page 125

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.