Age Quotes - Page 172

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Language is a virus from outer space.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

No text message will ever replace the first kiss.

I'm extremely blessed with my teammates. They're such an encouragement in my life. I have people praying for me and I'm praying for them as well.

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.