"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Age Quotes #Delight Quotes #Youth Quotes

“If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.”
“Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.”

Source : "BASEBALL; Marge Schott: Baseball's Big Red Headache" by Ira Berkow, www.nytimes.com. November 29, 1992.
“Enemies are an indication of character.”
“Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to watch, and one who, mercifully, still believes in happy endings.”
“Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.”
“It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.”

Source : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor
“He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned for me all that was taken from me and done against me. There is no flower in all the world more blessed or more satisfied than I, for I look up to [my Love] as a weaned child and say, 'Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire but Thee'.”

Source : "Hinds Feet on High Places".
“The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.”

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