Indignities Of Old Quotes & Sayings

Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. — Bell Hooks

According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they're less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put up with it? — Margaret Atwood

Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-size rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination. — Arthur C. Clarke

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you. — Woody Allen

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. — Anne Lamott

James Thompson, a twenty-six-year-old cafeteria worker, eloquently articulated the Negro dilemma in a letter he wrote to the Pittsburgh Courier: "Being an American of dark complexion," wrote Thompson, "these questions flash through my mind: 'Should I sacrifice my life to live half American?' ... 'Will colored Americans suffer still the indignities that have been heaped upon them in the past?' These and other questions need answering; I want to know, and I believed every colored American, who is thinking, wants to know. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you've done for others. — Omar Suleiman

An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities. — Stephen King

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh. — George MacDonald

It the myth-pool; sometimes the word-pool. He says that every time you call someone a good egg or a bad apple you're drinking from the pool or catching tadpoles at its edge; that every time you send a child off to war and danger of death because you love the flag and have taught the child to love it, too, you are swimming in that pool . . . out deep, where the big ones with the hungry teeth also swim. — Stephen King

it is not the first language that is all-important, but which language captures the adolescent's imagination when he or she first discovers literature. — Ned Thomas

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests.
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. — John Mortimer

I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience. — Jennifer Beals

A steampunk nation
Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause
Our art's official and only partially artificial
And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but
There's not where it settles
Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle
And now we face it, this creation we made to
To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's
Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation
In our steampunk nation
Our steampunk nation — Criss Jami