Age Quotes - Page 41

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated... It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

"Never stop. Never settle." I believe in this message.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own shields, but not the energy expended by other people. They understand that their own sanity is a performance, but when confronted by other people they confuse the person with the role.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.