Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

Shirley Bassey

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Shiri Appleby

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

Peace Pilgrim

I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.

Peter Thiel

A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

Peter Kreeft

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

Peter F. Hamilton

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.

Peter Biskind

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

Penelope Cruz

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

Peter Senge

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

Peter Senge

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

Peter Robinson

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

Pedro Almodovar

When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

Phyllis McGinley

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

Phyllis Diller

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Pythagoras

So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

Konrad Adenauer

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

Roger Clemens

That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Russ Carnahan

The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.

Russ Feingold

He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.

Rush Limbaugh

I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

Rush Limbaugh

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Thomas Mann

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

Thomas Malthus

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

Thomas Carlyle

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

Tony Curtis

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

Steven Erikson

Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

Silvia Colloca

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.

Lisa Kleypas

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

Lisa Gardner

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.