Best youth & might Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.”

Might Young Youth Particular Tasks League Communist Organisation Single Word

Book:Lenin on Literature and Art

Source: Lenin on Literature and Art

“In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.”

Men Firsts Long Might Youth He Man Becoming Disappointment Seeking Pursuit Enthusiasm Hopeless Quests Suggestions Be A Man Ardor Relinquishing

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.”

Doe Might Young Values Poor Youth Divine Creatures Angel Sells Consideration Maids

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.”

Might Pain Suffering Pleasure Wise Youth Being Wise

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.”

Source: The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films

“If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.”

Ifs Men Wells Might Prayer Youth Praying Gratification

Book:Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities

“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.”

Self Dream Might Values Passion Imagination Youth Glory Ideals Perfection Pursuit Urges Adolescence Boundless Absorption Self Absorption Personalized Self Perfection

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!”

Years Might Would Be Realizing Hours Youth Perfection Presses Add Felicity Wisdom And Experience

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.”

Men May Has Beens Art Ideas Use Inspiration Might Energy Left Youth Painting Periods Saint Painter Might Have Been Ripe Lively Versatile Great Service

Author:Laura Riding

“They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it.”

People Want Needs Art Might Community Youth Consumers Manufacturing

Author:Malik Yusef

“At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.”

Firsts Humans Long Government Might Movement Youth Aspect Aim Fundamentals Formal Glances Alliances Anarchist Sloth Paradoxical Explicit Spirited Aspects Of Life Convergence Oakland Wild Free

Author:Mark Steyn

“Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.”

Body Hands Might Passion Virtue Youth Occasions Strongest Mechanism Modesty Providence

Author:Jeremy Collier

“Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.”

People Years Believe Might Kids Today Fall Culture Five Youth Hundred Years Ago Phrases Falling Apart Manuscripts

Author:Joel McHale

“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.”

Men Looks Stills Reason Problem Seems Might America Born Focus Youth Periods Racism Good Things Look Up Old Man Nuts Vietnam Fondness Heyday

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.”

Knows Mind Might Love You Youth Privilege Leap Changing Your Mind

Author:Charles Kuralt

“During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.”

Ideas Might America Moving Left Youth Australia Realising Grandfather Uncles Egypt My Grandfather Cuba Unthinkable Lebanon

Author:Amin Maalouf

“Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.”

Wells Doe Enough Might Happens Jobs House Given Doors Crime Youth Building Program Cameras Employment Fund Locks Sensors

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.”

Men Might Fall Five Youth Fool Limits Falling In Love Extremes Thirty

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.”

World Made Dream Might Passion Memories Sleep Sin White Brain Youth Red Shame Filled Rose Mere Terror Gray Cheeks Stains Boyhood

Author:Oscar Wilde

“In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But that’s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine”

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Author:Anne Rice

“And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.”

Ifs Knows Men Might Would Be Together Remember Faces Moving Given Memories Secret Influence Youth Scene And Love Sight Photograph Features Comrade Gazing

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

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