#age

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. ↗

— George Burns

#birthday #age

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#am #baggage #bit #britain #carried

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-experience #life-lessons #living #age

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#bottom #courage #cowardice #easier #enter

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#inspiration #productivity #success #time-management #inspirational

... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88] ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage. ↗

— Aaron Paul

#driving #i #listen #music #need

Outside, in the hallway, my mother stopped. She pressed both hands to her chest, closed her eyes, and said under her breath, 'It's so bitter.' 'What, Mama?' 'Old age.' [p. 187] ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

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