Age Quotes - Page 50

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

The people closest to you need to hear your words of encouragement the most!

The possibilities are endless, so never be discouraged by a setback, no matter how big.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

I hope you get a message of love and to continue the love and continue the spirit that I'm trying to transmit to you in a righteous sense to be in one unity. Rastafari!

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

I think our fans are a bit like us — they’re very fun, like to have a laugh, like to party. I think that’s what comes across on our album as well. It’s very fun. It’s music that you could play at a party, but it also deals with teenage relationships.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action