Best able & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”

Ifs Reason Age Able Power Cost Fundamentals Aging Sexuality Birthday Links Repression Repressed 50th Birthday

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.”

“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”

People Giving Writing Book Reality Age Able Class Gains Entertainment Excuse Novelists Historian Imaginary Factual Biographers Vicarious

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Age Able Artist Born Duty Demand Unique Instinct Paint What You Want Being An Artist

Author:David Luiz

“The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.”

Men World Firsts Has Beens Age Able Middle Youth Goes On Brilliant Great Men Fades Grey Middle Ages Glamour Flowering

Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”

“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.”

World Age Able Three Fantasy Novel Poet Classic Great Work Trilogies Allan Poe Gormenghast

Book:The Gormenghast Novels

Source: The Gormenghast Novels

“Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.”

Source: The Freeholder. Swift's notes on the Free-holder. The Plebian, by Sir Richard Steele, with The Old whig, by Mr. Addison. The Lover

“Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.”

Wells Art Age Today Able Middle Art Is Forgiving Middle Ages Never Forgive

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age.”

Looks Has Beens Age Today Able Pride Satisfaction Appreciation Republic Spain

Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.”

World Different Whole Age Able Company Careers Records Possibility Whole World Enjoyed New Age Record Companies Staggering

Author:Lyle Lovett

“No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.”

Way Art Age Able Spiritual Energy Left Easy Enjoy Materials Conscience Dues Fortunate Ancestor Enjoy Life Art Of Living Time Left Spiritual Energy Living Better

Author:Flora Thompson

“I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.”

Self Age Able Accepting Sufficient Forty Far Away Looking Forward Self Sufficient Being Old

Author:Stella Vine

“In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.”

Ifs Thinking Age Able Past Life Is Pleasure History Humour Let Me Golden Plenty Transport Golden Age Single Word Dentistry

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.”

People Thinking Trying Important Play Age Able Past Generations Talent Late Horse Tricks Too Late Barns Past Generations

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.”

Thinking Knows Needs Mean Age Able Technology Minutes Type Hundred Height Productive Technological Basics

Author:Larry Gelbart

“I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.”

Knows Want Running Age Able Class Successful Campaigns Candidates This Day Billionaire

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.”

Thinking Years Wells Age Able Lasts Guy My Own Decision Lucky Eight Fifty Sixty My Own Life Lucky Guy

Author:Ted Nugent

“We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]”

Age Able Old Age Not Sure Dread

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well.”

Wells Age Able Doors Media Internet Communicate Coffee Sufficient Shops Coffee Shop

Author:Stephen Harper

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