Age Quotes - Page 143

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.