Age Quotes - Page 167

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Death laughs when old women frolic.

What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.

A pain free, active lifestyle is not only possible, but it is the way you should expect to feel and live, no matter your age, no matter your previous experience.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Take advantage of the resources around you and the relationships you build!

The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.

I am still learning. (at age 87)

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.