Age Quotes - Page 184

The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Colors speak all languages.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they're heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you'd miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.

To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.