Age Quotes - Page 90

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.