Age Quotes

Oswald mosley - there are periods in history when change is...
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
George Will
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
H. e. martz - he who builds a better mousetrap these days runs...
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
Saint Augustine
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmache
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....
Richard Bach
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
J. todd - few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever...
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
James Rippe, M. D.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer, Time
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
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
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
La Rochefoucauld
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
William S. Burroughs
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.
John Anthony Ciardi
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.
Author Unknown
I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. Mencken
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.
Time Bandits
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Prince Otto