Age Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

— John Edgar Wideman

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing called slavery…

— John Edgar Wideman

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

— Edward Young

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

— Andre Gide

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity…

— Christina Engela

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

There was an attempt on my life.

— Jovenel Moise

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”

— Robin Hobb

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

— Peter Storey

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

— Anonymous