Ages Quotes

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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce… — Tom Robbins
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad,… — Douglas Coupland
I am all the ages I've ever been. — Anne Lamott
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side… — Anne Lamott
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize… — C.S. Lewis
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. — Aristophanes
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants.… — Louise Rennison
She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry… — Regina Doman
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,… — W. Somerset Maugham
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco
Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. — Yann Martel
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. — Czeslaw Milosz
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,… — Albert Einstein
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. — Virginia Woolf
Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across… — Etty Hillesum
Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys… — Emily Bronte
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's… — Sophie Kinsella
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall… — Virginia Woolf
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten… — Robert Jordan

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