Age Quotes
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.Peter Drucke
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.William Ellery Channing
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.Josh Billings
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.George Bernard Shaw
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.The "Xlib Programming Manual".
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.Ellen Karsh
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.Joe Murray
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
