Generational Thinker Quotes & Sayings

It's up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now - and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we'll be happy. — Joanna Gaines

For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us. — Hesiod

This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. — John F. Kennedy

I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here. — Alesha Dixon

I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons. — H. Jon Benjamin

He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose? — Cormac McCarthy

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems ... — Dirk Nowitzki

I don't relax very well, and I find it hard to sit still. — Bobbi Brown

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing. — Clive Owen

In recent decades, Ireland in general and Dublin in particular, have been very fortunate in the quality of the historical attention they have received. During the extensive research required to write this book, I have been privileged to work with some of Ireland's most distinguished scholars, who have generously shared their knowledge with me and corrected my texts. Their kind contributions are mentioned in the Acknowledgements. Thanks to the scholarly work of the last quarter century, there has been a reevaluation of certain aspects of Ireland's history; and as a result, the story that follows may contain a number of surprises for many readers. I have provided a few additional notes in the Afterword at the end of this volume for those curious to know more. — Edward Rutherfurd

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. — Jared Diamond