Age Quotes - Page 165

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Laughter is the music of life.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.