#aging

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ↗

— Germain G. Glidden

#listening #age

It's finished. Everything went past, without me. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#carpe-diem #age

I'm falling into disrepair ↗

— Anne Tyler

#funny-but-sad #age

Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true—why, then you get offended. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#belief #challenge #history #life #offended

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time? ↗

— Jane Smiley

#life #marriage #age

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. ↗

— Samuel Ullman

#age

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth. ↗

— China Miéville

#youth #age

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#audience #club #engaging #fan #gatherings

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#allows #apply #both #clutter #creating

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. ↗

— Otto Schily

#apply #classic #clearly #criminals #criteria