T Quotes
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“The older I get, the older old is.”
“The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.”
Source: Judy Dater, twenty years
“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”
“The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.”
“The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.”
“The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.”
“The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable.”
“The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.”
“The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.”
“The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.”
“The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.”
Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
“The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.”
Source: No time like the present
“The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel”
Source: My Life and Mission
“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”
Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”
“The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.”
“The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.”
“The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.”
“The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.”
“The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.”
“The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.”
“The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.”
“The older Ive gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym.”
“The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers whose tenure is all too easily approved? Why not frolic naked in the sprinkler---under the full moon, perhaps? Why not turn one's family into a small nurturing country protected by a virtual moat?”
Source: And the Dark Sacred Night
“The older lady harrumphed. "I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate."
"Mother-"
"And get stuck in the Underworld!"
"Mother, please-"
"And here it is August, and do you come home like you're supposed to? Do you ever think about your poor lonely mother?"
"DEMETER!" Hades shouted. "That is enough. You are a guest in my house."
"Oh, a house is it?" she said. "You call this dump a house? Make my daughter live in this dark, damp-"
"I told you," Hades said, grinding his teeth, "there's a war in the world above. You and Persephone are better off here with me."
"Excuse me," I broke in. "But if you're going to kill me, could you just get on with it?”
Source: The Last Olympian
“The older lady smiled a friendly welcome that rivaled her preserves for sweet appeal. She could have been someone’s grandmother complete with close-cropped white hair if she wasn’t wearing a worn Grateful Dead T-shirt over a long-sleeved thermal. The 1987 Summer Tour.”
“The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.”
“The older man cocked his head and gave a laugh, "We get all the ladies. But for some reason I don't think you're here looking for me." "I don't know," Kat said. "I'm always in the market for good rappelling harness." "For you, my dear, nothing but the best." "But you are right about something. I'm actually trying to find---" "Young Mr. Hale, I'm assuming." Kate blushed. "Let me guess--I'm not the only one?" "Maybe. But you're the one i hope finds him." He gave a wink and walked away, and Kat didn't feel alone anymore in the big room full of people.”
“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
“The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.”
“The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace”
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
Source: Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
“The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.”
“The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.”
“The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.”
“The older person is necessarily more experienced at life, but is not necessarily more wise, or even just wise.”
“The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.”
“The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in the increasingly spiritistic inclination of physics itself, Behaviorism and Fundamentalism had found a meeting place. Since the ultimate stuff of the physical universe was now said to be multitudinous and arbitrary “quanta” of the activity “spirits”, how easy was it for the materialistic and the spiritistic to agree? At heart, indeed, they were never very far apart in mood, though opposed in doctrine. The real cleavage was between the truly spiritual view on the one hand, and the spiritistic and materialistic on the other. Thus the most materialistic of Christian sects and the most doctrinaire of scientific sects were not long in finding a formula to express their unity, their denial of all those finer capacities which had emerged to be the spirit of man.”
Source: Last and First Men
“The older revolutionaries sought to change the social environment in the hope (if they were idealists and not mere power seekers) of changing human nature. Then coming revolutionaries will make their assault directly on human nature as they find it, in the minds and bodies of their victims or, if you prefer, their beneficiaries.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“The older she grows, the farther she walks. It is a good thing the world is round and she is fond of walking in circles or else she might disappear across three times nine countries in the thirtieth tsardom!”
Source: Be My Wolff
“The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.”
“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”
“The older the friendship, the stronger the trust.”
“The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.”