Quotes 441 till 460 of 1807.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
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I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
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I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
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