Age Quotes - Page 18

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.

Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.