Age Quotes - Page 81

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well.

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

Hope is the expectation of fulfillment that is anchored in God's promise to meet my need. Hope is not based on my emotional or mental determination. It is rooted in God. Quite simply, we are optimistic because we have placed our hope.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Massage is the study of anatomy in braille.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.