Age Quotes - Page 208

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

Smiles are the language of love.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

In language clarity is everything.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.