Quotes About Age

There was a romance to that analog era, an ardency, an otherness that is missing in the post-Empire digital age where everything has ultimately come to feel disposable.

Mises's conclusion: "Whosoever foresees so clearly before the age of forty the disaster and the destruction of everything he deems of value, cannot escape pessimism and psychic depression.

the next Age of Reason will not come easily in this time of magical beliefs and superstitious fear.

Stupid old boys' network... That's why we're not running the world, huh, girlie? 'Cause when women see a younger version of us, it just makes us angry.

There is a single, most frequent age at which each period begins," he went on: seventeen, forty, sixty, and eighty. Everyone lives through the same developmental periods at the same time. Again, the

has become increasingly clear to me that one's capacity for risk-bearing depends importantly upon one's age and ability to earn income from noninvestment sources. It

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.

His wrinkled face showed the changes he had seen.

I didn't want it to be this way. Yes, you did, she said, because it is. I just want to be with someone normal, he said. I just want to have a normal life. Excuse me, she said. You're a little crazy, he said. You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.

Ah'd rather be silly old fool than a lonely old woman you see.

The twenty-first century would be the age of the cartel, the unforgettable era of the new monopolists, when men who were strong and farsighted and, yes, ruthless would control the globe.

I believe it's never too late to change. I'm eighty-one years old, but I still think I can be a better person tomorrow than I am today. And that's what I'll believe until I run out of tomorrows.

Skip Wiley was thirty-seven years old but he had the eyes of an old Gypsy.

New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science and technology.

Society corrupts the best of us. It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, but it is also profoundly saddening that such prejudices were so extremely pervasive. The question raises nagging uncertainties about which of the conventional truths of our own age will be considered unforgivable bigotry by the next.

We live in a complex age where many of the problems we face can, whatever their origins, only have solutions that involve a deep understanding of science and technology.

People's feelings are as strong as they always were, and skepticism is probably as unfashionable today as in any other age. Accordingly

It is striking that the observational search for extraterrestrial life began in the same generation as the invention of the telescope, and with the greatest theoretician of the age.

So in an age when traditional religions have been under withering fire from science, is it not natural to wrap up the old gods and demons in scientific raiment and call them aliens?

The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. You've got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you've got to be one or the other, either young or with money , you can't be old and without it. - That's the truth , Brick...

Princess, the age of some people can only be calculated by the level of - level of - rot in them.

Nature is not on the side of a girl over thirty