Quotes of: Old-world Keyword

A more common explanation for the feeling of being Old in Soul is tied up in Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation, or metempsychosis. Interestingly, this is most likely where the origin of the phrase “Old Soul” came from in the first place.

Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

Michael Moore

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

Sai Baba

Respectable and elite careers are of no interest to the Old Soul who is much too tired to join in with the “my house is bigger than your house” games of society. If the Old Soul has to work, any job will usually do. It's very uncommon to find Old...

Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

... was the great and general renunciation which old age makes in preparation for death, the chrysalis stage of life, which may be observed wherever life has been unduly prolonged; even in old lovers who have lived for one another with the utmost int...

Swann's Way

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

Peter Falk

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

T. S. Eliot

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends.

Debasish Mridha

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

The great thing about the Internet isn't that you can reconnect with old friends or stay up to date with developing world events or send pictures of newborns immediately around the world. It is simply that you can log on to jcpenney.com from anywhere...

Write like no one is reading

So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any no...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers. ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world th...

1Q84

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the m...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

I was lost in a magical mystic world as I step into the old university library. This place I would say is the birth place of the ‘writer’ in me and still one of my most loved places in the world. It was always peaceful there. Each and every momen...

Ama H.Vanniarachchy

Tyler Fitzgerald: Anybody can fly plane, now here: I'll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel there. Now put your feet on the rudder. There. Who says this ol' boy can't fly this ol' plane? Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Alice Waters

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

Mosses from an Old Manse

Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.

Polish