Age Quotes - Page 227

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria.

One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so