"as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?"

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

#Age Quotes #Alive Quotes #Problem Quotes

“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.”

Source : "The Politics of Appeasement — Again and Again??" by Jane Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2005.
“Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.”
“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.”

Source : "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.
“In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.”
“When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.”
“I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!”

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