Quotes of: Young-person Keyword

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Letters to a Young Contrarian

I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.

Letters to a Young Doubter

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

The Longest Journey

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

Letters to a Young Lawyer

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Letters to a Young Poet

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

Letters to a Young Poet

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

Letters to a Young Poet

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Letters to a Young Poet

Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen: a young man with his heart in his penis.

The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

Be young at heart. Remember back when you were young and what made you happiest then. Recapture the simplicity and wonder of youth and make it a state of mind.

Simple Living A to Z

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

Too Young to Die

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.

Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, Young Reader's Edition

Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God’s kind of love.

One-Minute Inspirations for Women

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.

Parenting With Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade