Age Quotes - Page 140

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.