Age Quotes - Page 56

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

The average human has one breast and one testicle.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

The jester is brother to the sage.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.