Age Quotes - Page 142

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.