Age Quotes - Page 198

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.