Age Quotes - Page 244

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.