#ge

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#i #inspirational #known #own #age

You're never too old to be young. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#life-philosophy #youth #age

... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#hope #age

Wives' at these events had limited choices: either they could stay by their husbands' sides to coach them on other guests' names and remind them of the ages of their children when asked, or they could congregate with other wives in a corner, like pedestrians caught in a rain shower with only one umbrella between them. ↗

— Anne Korkeakivi

#age

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#aging #books #old-age #reading #writing

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages. ↗

— David Lodge

#age

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#growing-up #age

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal. ↗

— Louise Penny

#age

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#epiphanies #gratitude #age