Cinquantaine Quotes & Sayings

The trouble of the modern age is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did. — T. S. Eliot

He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years. The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. — George Orwell

How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust. — Richard Llewellyn

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated. — Milan Kundera

I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don't regret a single minute of it. I love to act! — Kellan Lutz

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. — Richard Branson

Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater. — Ron Baratono

A coat is not worth eight times as much as a hat to the community because it takes eight times as long to make it ... The community is willing to devote eight times as long to the making of a coat because it will be worth eight times as much to it — Mark Skousen

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. — Jose Saramago

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ (which is the object of Christian faith) is something very different from religion."5 Religion has many critics, but Jesus very few. He is a self-authenticating reality beyond the myriad social cocoons. He belongs to humanity. He called himself "Son of Man. — Dallas Willard