98th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past. — T. S. Eliot

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way. — James A. Michener

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that. — Horace Mann

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making. — Karl Urban

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. — Christopher Durang

You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference. — Andrea Seigel

What had John Keats said about Negative Capability - holding two opposite ideas in one's mind at the same time without straining to reconcile them? — Dan Simmons

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

The media covers what's new - and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it's difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It's hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don't know how to help. And so we look away. — Bill Gates

There were parts of her spun from floss and held together with hope - and those bits were fragile indeed. — Tessa Dare

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed. — Will Smith

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. — Henry Ford

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy. — Agnes Varda

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself! — Gabriel Mann