Quotes 781 till 800 of 1369.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
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One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
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One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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