Quotes about age
age criticism examination
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. Immanuel Kant
age old-age know-how
Few know how to be old. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
age vices desert
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
age coal pouring
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. Jeff Buckley
age reason age-of-reason
This then is the age of reason. Jean-Paul Sartre
age seventies
Oh, to be seventy again! Georges Clemenceau
agendas be-good
The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals George Will
agency government law
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
age trying failing
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. George Saunders
agency government office
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices ... Jefferson Davis
agendas democrat plans
Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership Jeff Miller
age cheese matter
Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese. Jean Paul
age mcr program
I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know. Jerry Pournelle
age firsts difficult
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. Jim Bishop
age movement influential
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Jeffrey Rosen
age noon tvs
Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age Jackson Browne
age stones doe
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens
age different firsts
I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did. Frank O'Hara
age degrees vigor
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage. Christopher Gadsden
age slumps humanist
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. Christopher Dawson
age singers interviews
Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age. Christina Aguilera
age sovereign states
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. Christian Lous Lange
age littles young
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young. Gilbert Gottfried
agendas vote conspiracy
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.
age lines invisibility
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy. George Packer
age judgment human-condition
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless... Friedrich Nietzsche
age youth clarity
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
age hours decline
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. Franz Grillparzer
age information fluency
Age is information failure. The body loses fluency. Jeanette Winterson
age band energy
I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up. Jim Capaldi
age politics lord
God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong. Jethro Tull
agency choices
Agency presupposes choice. Jerome Bruner
age best-things
The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Jen Lancaster