Mature Themes Quotes & Sayings

]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray — Sappho

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.'
-Mat — Robert Jordan

Your rights end where my nose begins. — Abraham Lincoln

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book. — Isaac Marion

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. — Richard Gere

While we all grow and mature and change from that awkward little worm we were in high school, it is still a pretty consistent indicator of who we become as adult butterflies. High school sets a tone for how the next decade of your life plays out, good or bad. It is the first set of steps in your journey. If you want to know who you were as a person during this hormonal time, refer to your yearbook. You will find a theme and you will see a pattern. Most definitely, you will notice these themes and patterns carried on into your twenties and so on. Take those signatures serious. — Jennie Hoffer

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home. — Christina Milian

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. — Tacitus

Your desire for vengeance will cause countless deaths, child," she said, pointing a crooked finger at Rhylie. "Innocents will be caught up in your maelstrom, their lives torn apart. People you have never met, and will never know will die beneath your shadow if you do not stop. You tear the galaxy asunder with each step you take towards Vorcia. — Charles Hash

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others. — Judith Martin

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. — Max Von Sydow

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. — Euripides

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious. — R.N. Prasher

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes. — Harvey Weinstein