Age Quotes - Page 145

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration!"

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

Each material has its own message.

I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.