Quotes of: Stone-age Keyword

We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the pani...

The Age of Hope

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

The Age of Innocence

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!

The Age of Innocence

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

The Age of Innocence

Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me.

The Age of Odin

We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.

Aquarium

She’s all the blood I’ve ever shed. She’s every time I’ve ever thought of death. She’s every time I’ve ever looked at happiness and thought, ‘That’s not meant for me.

The Age of Recovery

What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

The Age of Reason

Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the receiving end of the interaction.

The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

The Republic

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Now don’t you give me any of that talk about becoming overly protective and fussy in my old age. I have every right to show a little concern now and then.

Resistance

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.

The Spirit of the Age

There can be such a sky, and such A play of rays, that our heart feels An insult to a doll is more Piteous than an insult to oneself. ("It Happened at Vallen-Koski")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale