Age Quotes - Page 234

Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is precisely what makes it so appealing to intelligence agencies, so powerful, and so dangerous.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.