Age Quotes - Page 78

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The universe is always sending you inspiration, you just have to listen and allow.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding