Age Quotes
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.George Will
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
Truth never damages a cause that is just.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefelle
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.Alfred North Whitehead
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.Judith Rossne
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.MG Siriam
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann von Goethe
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.George Bernard Shaw
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.Lao Tzu
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.John Simon
The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.Paul S. Winalski
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
