#dole

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. ↗

— James Payn

#enough #fact #having #him #his

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#around #assault #body #came #changing

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#children #condition #germany #harvest #having

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up. ↗

— John Marsden

#age

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. ↗

— Anita Diament

#adolescent #almost #america #everything #good

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#critic #indolence #man #opinion #prefers

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#artful #dole #gift #good #had

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#am #analyze #i #i am #nor

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age