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" I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams. "

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" There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. "

James Buchan

Age

Selling

Now

" Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. "

" Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. "

" If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50. "

" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "

" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "

" My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid. "

" Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? "

" It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Good

Age

Time

" It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. "

" After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. "

" I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. "

" Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. "

" I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' "

" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "

" India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. "

" I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. "

Stephen Fry

Remind

Need

" Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. "

" To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. "

" The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers. "

" Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. "

" I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. "

" Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date. "

" In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. "

" Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God. "

Charles Spurgeon

Power

Spirit

" Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. "

" When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. "

" A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. "

" I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time. "

" Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. "