Age Quotes - Page 51

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.