Age Quotes - Page 259

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.