Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

Briony Tallis, aged 13: Yes. I saw him. I saw him with my own eyes.

Atonement

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Abraham Cowley

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Aubrey de Grey

Enlightened spirit of the age is not the principal of life but a mirror that lets us see life through it's view.

Auliq Ice

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

Amit Kalantri

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

Amit Kalantri

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Andy Rooney

the most weird things about elders, they learned it on a quiet younger age & don't want us to.

Srinivas Shenoy

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

Théophile Thoré

As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Will Durant

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing,

W.B. Yeats

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Kamala Harris

Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it's great!"—Bang, down we fall, to this, to concentration camps, gas ovens, barbed wire, atom bombs, tele...

Desolation Angels

In 's ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from and other stories by that I first heard of relat...

Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s

I want to be known as the 23 year-old who is foolishly in love with a Prince she can't see. I want to rejoice while holding the rose of singleness, even when my hands bleed from its thorns. I want to resist the urge to envy the pairs growing in the m...

22 and Single: A Coming of Age Story...in Progress

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to ent...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralizations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic senti...

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [...] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you...

Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit