Funny Over The Hill 40th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the universal nature through which things happen to you, and your own nature through the acts which must be done by you. — Marcus Aurelius

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things. — Isaac Asimov

I knew how I sounded - slow and oafish, like the cousin who gets ditched and goes on playing alone, as if he'd planned it that way. I couldn't quite tell her about the daily beauty, how I didn't tire of seeing 6 a.m. light on the telephone wires. When I was younger, I'd expected to grow out of the gap between the self I knew and what I heard myself say. I'd expected to feel more like one single person. — Michael Cunningham

All beneath Heaven is rooted in nation. Nation is rooted in family. And family is rooted in self. — Mencius

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. — Ice-T

Thought is just an apprehension of touch. — Gary Snyder

When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography. — Vilmos Zsigmond

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin? — Vladimir Nabokov

Dee, I think the reason why he stares at me is because he's planning on ways to kill me and hide my body. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God. — John Henry Newman

And the Slytherins don't need a spy, Oliver," said George. "What makes you say that?" said Wood testily. "Because they're here in person," said George, pointing. — J.K. Rowling

They'd all do better if they could get past the storm and wait for the rainbow to appear. — Cecilia London

A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book. — Margaret Atwood