Oldism Quotes & Sayings

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise. — Barbara Walters

I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard. — Greg Rucka

Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego. — Mark Matthews

Fighting corruption is not restricted to naming and shaming a few corrupt officials. If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At best, we hate the politician who gets to steal (while we don't!). — Chetan Bhagat

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for. — George Eliot

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian. — David Livingstone

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors. — L. Ron Hubbard

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission — Grace Hopper