Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Harry Styles

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

William O. Douglas

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Pope John Paul II

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Karl Rahner

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Compton MacKenzie

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Edmund Burke

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Carla Bley

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Rita Ora

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Taslima Nasrin

I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

Paula Danziger

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

Francis Bacon

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Frances Mayes

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

George Strait

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

Jerry Springer

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.