Age Quotes - Page 39

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.

...language is never innocent.

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.