Age Quotes - Page 209

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.