Age Quotes - Page 255

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

Whistleblowers is another aspect that needs to be addressed. We have to restore the protections of whistleblowers and also the encouragement and rewards. It shouldn't just be that they don't get crucified; it should be that they are again folk heroes, or celebrated for bringing critical matters to public attention, as opposed to traitors.

I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that there’s nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

Once you’ve actually died on stage… I mean, how do you top that?

Minds ripen at very different ages.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.