Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, an...

Anne Rice

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way. Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our curre...

Life

Today there is a deep longing in our culture to reconnect to this spiritual world, for we are not whole without it. But our longing cannot be satisfied by embracing religious belief alone, no matter how emotional the embrace, for our longing is at ro...

Love

An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?

An Chéad Chloch

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Chicago: City on the Make

Oh my God. Party punch. He’d brought a woman with the social age of twelve to the Citadel. He deserved everything he got.

Cirque de Minuit

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

A Clockwork Orange

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

Common Sense

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Dubliners

Bí ann nó as táimse ag triall Ort agus má tá cuirim geasa Ort mé a shábháil ón dream a deir gur fear fuar sa spéir Thú.

Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

The Dispossessed

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Empowerment Basics

Parting One is strong, a child now grown The other weak, a parent aged - The strong once feeble The weak once mighty - Time, the infinity has marked them...

Enigmatic Evolution

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Ender's Game

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Eugene Onegin

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Evernight

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

Flight Behavior

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Faefever

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

A Fatal Grace