Quotes with coming-of-age

Quotes 441 till 460 of 833.

  • Abdul Kalam My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Arthur Erickson Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Ralph Gerard No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
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  • Thomas Carlyle No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Bernanke No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Terence No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Barbara de Angelis No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry Miller No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Barton No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Israel Zangwill No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Edward Hoagland Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Anne Tyler None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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