Age Quotes - Page 77

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

The world is a living image of God.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century