Decrepit Define Quotes & Sayings

Artificial over stimulations seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available. — Chuck Palahniuk

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises. — Demosthenes

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it. — Saint Francis De Sales

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure. — Alexandra Ripley

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace. — Pope Francis

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing — John F. Kennedy

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world. — Thomas Paine

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order. — Ellen Glasgow

If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration. — Cass Sunstein