Age Quotes - Page 188

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Love your rage, not your cage.

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.

You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.

Have the courage to face the truth