Quotes of: Older-generation Keyword

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

Luther Allison

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

Charles Babbage

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

Todd Stocker

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Life

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

Life

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

Clark Duke

Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.

Domhnall Gleeson

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

Sally Schneider

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Wynton Marsalis

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Patricia Hill Collins

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

Edward Grey

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Julia Ward Howe

We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when I was younger, about a father who lifts his young son onto his back to carry him across a flooding river. 'When I am ...

Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the Sta...

Crimes of Christianity

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With ci...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to...

The Fall of Hyperion

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversi...

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun