#older

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#chord #disturbed #get #i #older

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#father #feels #getting #good #i

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#ever #house #i #ladies #liked

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#biology #brother #developed #even #him

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#bit #die #going #inevitable #little

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#closeted #feel #felt #gay #go

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). ↗

— George Saunders

#believer #cool #desire #does #especially

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#care #find #goes #grow #i

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#come and go #few #friends #get #go