Quotes about age
age firsts grows
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. Thomas Jefferson
agency occupation als
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Robin Cook
age forget stills
We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing. Robert Wilson Lynd
agents steps actors
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals. Robert Rodriguez
agency culture directors
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go. Richard Perle
age
This is not yet a scientific age. Richard P. Feynman
age sense-of-humor jokes
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.
age youth illusion
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. Robert Louis Stevenson
age safe belief
Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
age sides may
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
age tilt stones
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
age facts cold
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.
age world morality
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said. Robert Evans
age tomorrow wonderful
Tomorrow can be a wonderful age. Walt Disney
age library buckets
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. Washington Irving
age growing tools
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
age taught insight
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. Walter Lippmann
age opinion popular-opinion
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. Voltaire
age levels rise-above
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
age church widows
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next. William Ralph Inge
age society next
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
age transition dear
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
age may looks
I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be? William Butler Yeats
age citizens world
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. Wilkie Collins
agency political inquiry
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question. Wilhelm von Humboldt
age stuff baghdad
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive Walter Isaacson
age may golden
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. Yo-Yo Ma
age lost-everything difficult-times
I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life. Willie Aames
agency commodity danger
Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen. William S. Burroughs
age phrases lamps
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
age found
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. Virginia Woolf
age calm temper
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away. Vinnie Jones
age united-states lasts
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic. Woodrow Wilson