Fifty Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fifty Should Together Years
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. — John R. Platt Copy Share Image
I think a couple should complete one another, not compete with one another. — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. — Mary Cheney Copy Share Image
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives. — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
