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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.
In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.
It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.
...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.
From 16 to 26, no one really knows what they want to do for the rest of their life at that age. Latin's not f - ing one of them.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies I love women. I love to spend more time with them.
I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.
Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.