Quotes about age
aged composer heard point somebody widow
That's a nightmare, ... Somebody will point out to the aged widow of some composer that they heard a snatch of (his) song. It can take time. Dick Cavett
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exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building. We all need to understand that the United Nations is not a separate or alien entity, seeking to impose its agenda on others. The United Nations is us; it is you and me. Kofi Annan
agenda attractive host less overloaded pet projects senior
APEC is overloaded with micro-issues, which has made it less attractive to the senior people, and the agenda has tended to take on pet projects of the host countries,
age gives kids learn love nature protective respect responsibility students wonderful
The kids just love being with nature and discovering new things. This is a wonderful way for students to learn a respect for nature. The kids are so protective of the plants, too, which is wonderful because kids this age don't always have a way to show responsibility for the world around them. This gives them such a wonderful sense of pride.
age-and-aging lack product warning
The lack of an age-based warning renders the product defective. Robert Baker
agent approaches distance gives information intelligence meeting near officer receives special transmit via visualize walks
The know-how here is such that the intelligence officer can communicate with his agent without meeting him at all. Let us visualize the situation: the agent, who has to transmit information, walks near the rock, approaches it and transmits information at a distance of about 20 meters via a special device. The intelligence officer also walks nearby, receives information and gives new instructions to his agent.
age intent prove trip
The intent of the trip was to prove what we could do at our age and we weren't going to give up.
age four silent
From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then. Eli Wallach
age connections strange
[Pablo]Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did. Antonio Banderas
age want aging
I want to die young at a ripe old age. Ashley Montagu
age
I am the Avatar of this Age! Meher Baba
age important way
Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps. Mary Catherine Bateson
age born ten
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. Mary Chapin Carpenter
age novelists faces
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Martin Amis
agents violence victim
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. Pierre Bourdieu
age doe spirit
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age. Pierre Corneille
age want dignity
I want to age with some dignity. Pete Townshend
agency decision president
What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President. Philip Agee
age ambassadors territory
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said. Quentin Crisp
age acceleration exhilarating
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. Pico Iyer
age attention distraction
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
age theater anachronism
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. Minnie Maddern Fiske
age wish lessons
I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life. Peace Pilgrim
agency over-you important
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket. Peter Thiel
age fantasy
Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. Terry Pratchett
age illusion compare
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. Terence McKenna
age world looks
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
age belief has-beens
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
age reform opinion
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
age condemnation loud
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
age retiring show-business
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit. Shirley Bassey
age want directors
I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age. Shiri Appleby
age answers might
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. Leslie Jamison