Quotes 801 till 820 of 1466.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html -
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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