Age Quotes - Page 171

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

There are no prizes for average performance.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!