Visiting Lonely Elderly Quotes & Sayings

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. — Chief Joseph

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
Yes, into Life's deep stream!
All forms of sorrow and delight,
All solemn Voices of the Night,
That can soothe thee, or affright, -
Be these henceforth thy theme.
(excerpt from "Voices of the Night") — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. — George Burns

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. — Barbra Streisand

Other calculations of his show that to keep pace with the present rate of temperature change, plants and animals would have to migrate poleward by thirty feet a day, and that a molecule of CO2 generated by burning fossil fuels will, in the course of its lifetime in the atmosphere, trap a hundred thousand times more heat — Elizabeth Kolbert

To start with, look at all the books. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and useless as chess pieces. And now they were tampering with something more intangible
the memory; they were trying to cut the wires which led back into another year. — Ray Bradbury

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. — Haruki Murakami

You allow the world to think you're a heartless murderer," I tell him. "And you're not."
He laughs, once; his eyebrows lifting in surprise. "No," he says. "I'm afraid I'm just the regular kind of murderer. — Tahereh Mafi

He thinks too highly of me, places me on a pedestal i've never deserved. — Tahereh Mafi

The deeper your thoughts, the clearer your dreams. The clearer your dreams, the higher you fly. Decide to fly! — Israelmore Ayivor

Moriarty smiled his adder's smile.
And I relaxed. I knew. My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I'd never got before upon meeting a man. When I'd had it from women, the upshot ranged from disappointment to attempted murder. Understand me, Professor James Moriarty was a hateful man, the most hateful, hateable, creature I have ever known, not excluding Sir Augustus and Kali's Kitten and the Abominable Bloody Snow-Bastard and the Reverend Henry James Prince. He was something man-shaped that had crawled out from under a rock and moved into the manor house. But, at that moment, I was his, and I remain his forever. If I am remembered, it will be because I knew him. From that day on, he was my father, my commanding officer, my heathen idol, my fortune and terror and rapture. — Kim Newman

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously. — Jean Chretien

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself. — Bobby Darin