Age Quotes - Page 141

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!