A Quotes
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“At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.”
Source: The Finkler Question
“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history. They’re turning their lives into stories, trying to make sense of them in retrospect and pass them on while there’s still time. You begin, embarrassingly belatedly, to see them as people with lives long preceding your own.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.”
“At a certain age we forget to be afraid of people. We start to dread, instead, their absence.”
Source: The Great Mistake
“At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it's the revealing of who you are that enables you to dig deeper into different characters. You'll get to a point where you can say: 'I can relate to that', 'I know that', 'I don't have to make that up' and that resonates with people in the audience who can tell that you've been there.”
“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”
Source: The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
“At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.”
“At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be nowhere near them. But at the end of the day, you know that you can't literally do anything without them. You love your parents through and through, and they love you probably even more than you could ever imagine until you're a parent yourself.”
“At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.”
“At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.”
“At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.”
“At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.”
“At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.”
“At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.”
“At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.”
Source: Saint Denis
“At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.”
“At a certain level of abstraction, anyone could have written the poem, but that didn't feel true either. It seemed as though what he was really saying was: there's something beautiful about the way you think and feel, or the way you experience the world is beautiful in some way.”
Source: Conversations with Friends
“At a certain level of learning and understanding,
right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.”
Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays
“At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.”
“At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!”
“at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.”
“At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired.
- Simone Weil”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorize their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest.”
Source: Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
“At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.”
Source: The Music of Silence: Entering the Sacred Space of Monastic Experience
“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“At a certain point a realization comes that it's not your life. You can't possess something you are. You don’t have a life. You are life.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“At a certain point as a child, we notice that the food at home is not the same as the dinners our friends eat.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“At a certain point, beyond all extremity, the only freedom you have left is the freedom to say ‘No’ and let them do as they will”
Source: Thirteen Storeys
“At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.”
Source: The Nickel Boys
“At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.”
“At a certain point I became really frustrated with modeling, like, why do I have to go home after school and get dressed up and put makeup on my face, and then go to a photographer's studio where there's 15 other girls with their books and have to prove myself? A lot of people don't think of it that way, but modeling's a hard job, physically and emotionally.”
“At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.”
“At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new.”
Source: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
“At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.”
“At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.”
Source: Malinche
“At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.”
“At a certain point in my life, I realized that there were only two options: either I was completely losing my mind, or I was finally getting closer to the truth.”
Source: Crazy game called Life
“At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.”
“At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who is on the leaderboard, so you have to know who is there to do what you're going to try to do.”
“At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.”
“At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.”
Source: The Crime of Julian Wells
“At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.”
“At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.”
“At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what you're going to pick, and how many are going to be released within a year.”
“At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.”
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.”
“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.”
“At a certain point, unabashed optimism becomes delusional insanity.”
Source: She's Toxic
“At a certain point, we have to stop ‘play time,’ start ‘construction time’ and get things going, instead of getting mired down in the quicksand of wishful thinking, clutching desperately to imaginary ‘dei ex machina.’ (" Swim or sink")”