Age Quotes - Page 250

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.

Every man prays in his own language.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

I never spent much time with people my own age.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

the truth is often a mixed message

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.