(1111 quotes found)
“Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.”
Henry C. Link
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
Camille Paglia
“Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.”
Pat Riley
“Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.”
Christina of Sweden
“Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'�an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraints�severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedom�often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.”
William E. Simon
“If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.”
Will Smith
“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”
E. B. White
“Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.”
Sally Stanford
“Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.”
Charles Lindbergh
“In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.”
Yakov Smirnoff