Age Quotes - Page 65

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

When the darkness rolls in, I'll be there through thick and thin.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.