Age Quotes - Page 251

Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

My message is simple: take control of your life

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

I screwed up at a young age with my parents. They were very religious and they didn't really understand music. They didn't really listen to music. I went through a series of battles with them about why I loved music.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.