Age Quotes - Page 246

Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Look for ways to be a blessing. Simple words of encouragement can brighten somebody’s day.

It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.

People need encouragement to take action.