Elderly Quotes - Page 10

• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  William James

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  Jack Dee

  Kids, Thinking, Knowing

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Gentleman, Enemy

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• We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Cutting, Thinking

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• If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Experts, Done, Fields

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• On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, Men, Cities

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.256, The New Press

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• One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jobs, Important, Youth

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• I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

  Loretta Chase

  Love You, Infatuation, Spinsters

  Loretta Chase (2004). “Miss Wonderful”, p.249, Penguin

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• When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Real, Lasts, Life Is

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.

  Colin Quinn

  Thinking, Reality, Practice

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• 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Technology, Impossible Things

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• The elderly are useless eaters.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Useless

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• Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

  Pope Francis

  Children, People, Useless

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Listening Ear, Volunteer

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, Essence, Feet

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Children, Dawn, Tests

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• ...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

  David Eddings

  Sorry, Expression, Soul

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• At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Thinking, People

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• The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Children, Twilight, Quality

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• I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

  Moby

  Veterans Day, Children, Believe

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• As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

  Rafael Cruz

  Suicide, Obamacare, Years

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures”? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Fighting, Office, Drug

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• At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Children, Eye, Given

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• I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.

  Dane Cook

  Dog, Baby, Car

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• At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

  Edmund Wilson

  Gout, Sometimes, Preoccupation

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