Age Quotes - Page 178

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

Academics are, on average, pussies.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.

When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can't beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That's just the way it is.

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

Cleavage is to a man what power is to a woman.