Ages When Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
— John Jay Chapman
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse…
— David Berlinski
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The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
— Robertson Davies
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Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they…
— Mike Rounds
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Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War…
— Vicki Myron
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The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a…
— Cornell Woolrich
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Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the…
— John Gresham Machen
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
— Tamora Pierce
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There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
— Ralph Borsodi
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and…
— Richard Armour
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He…
— Walter Lippmann
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My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what…
— Johnny Vegas
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette,…
— Truman Capote
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God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad…
— John Piper
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This man will not be able to understand why the sun still has the power to shine, eve if everything is vanity, as he will…
— Sorin Cerin
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We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover,…
— C Kilmer Myers
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I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision…
— Ritu Ghatourey
Who Wrote These Ages When Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Ages When Quotes as follows: