Octogenarians Decade Quotes & Sayings

We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche. — C.S. Lewis

I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny. — Julio Cortazar

At last my heart was too full. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession. — Nelson DeMille

Microsoft seems obsessed with the word active. there's Active Desktop, ActiveX, and Active Directory. however, the term is accurate-indeed, Active Directory is Active (when used correctly) — Ed Tittel

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go. — Mason Cooley

When your heart is full of kindness, mind is full of love, words are healing and compassionate, hands are extended for care, you are the purest temple, you are great and rare. — Debasish Mridha

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only. — Anais Nin

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him — Cassandra Clare