Quotes & Sayings About Getting Older And Birthdays

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey. — Patrick Carney

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true. — Siri Hustvedt

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward. — Melinda Gates

He kicked in the door with one casual blow, leaned in, and said, "Please don't run. I'm not in a good mood. Better if you just sit still."
He cocked his head and listened, then smiled. "Ah," he said. "And there he goes. You two wait here. — Rachel Caine

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball. — Jennie Finch

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. — Henry David Thoreau

Dark wings, dark words," Ned said grimly. — George R R Martin

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why. — Beth Ditto

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf. — Hale Irwin

I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested. — Tom Rush

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship. — Samuel Johnson

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said ... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it. — Anthony De Mello

Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason. — Ayn Rand