Age Quotes - Page 153

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.