Vieillesse Quotes

#1. The ivy of the old age begins at the feet that hurt. (Le lierre de la vieillesse - Commence aux pieds qui blessent.)

Charles De Leusse

#2. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

Jared Diamond

#3. Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.
And alive, for the first time in his life.

V.S. Carnes

#4. That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everbody gettin caught in the fallout, gettin their ass blowed up.

John Kennedy Toole

#5. The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

Warren Olson

#6. Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present - we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

Billy Graham

#7. Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Vandana Shiva

#8. A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Kate Clinton

#9. This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime ... man that was scary.

Johnny Christ

#10. As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#11. Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

Rumi

#12. First lesson when dealing with Karsa Orlong," she murmured. "Expect the unexpected.

Steven Erikson