Age Quotes - Page 182
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company
Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.146, tredition
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.83, Faber & Faber
Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.133, Shambhala Publications
Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.21, Courier Corporation
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).
"The Last Leaf " l. 43 (1831)
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.20, Arcade Publishing
Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.402, Penguin Books India
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.