Age Quotes - Page 205

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond to your praise and encouragement. Your words don't have to be poetic, fancy, or profound. Tell her simply but sincerely, "You're a great mother to our children. And you are a great wife to me. I'm so glad I can always count on you."

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.