Golden Quotes - Page 32

• You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect.

  Amit Ray

  Perfect, Effort, Meditation

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• Do not delay,
  Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Procrastination, Golden Moments, Delay

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.817, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

  Robert Benchley

  Birthday, Fall, Men

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• I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

  Edward Norton

  Birthday, Children, Age

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. March 28, 2002.

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• It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Birthday, Law, Age

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• Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Fall, Boys

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• Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

  Edward Abbey

  Widows, Married, Ass

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• Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

  John Banville

  Summer, Long, Childhood

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Quests, Wrecks

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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• This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Adventure, Dying, Age

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• One golden day redeems a weary year

  Celia Thaxter

  Happiness, Years, Golden Days

  Celia Thaxter (1874). “Poems”, p.65

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• It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

  Stephen Crane

  Gone, Midst, Process

  Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Heart, Noble, Splendid

  Giovanni Boccaccio (1972). “The Decameron”, Penguin Books

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• In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

  Elena Kagan

  Greatness, Past, United States

  "Komrade Kagan" by Mark Alexander, patriotpost.us. May 13, 2010.

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• So the story goes, so I'm told
  The people he knew were
  Less than golden hearted
  Gamblers and robbers
  Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
  Like you and me

  Dave Matthews

  People, Soul, Stories

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• The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

  Russell Baker

  People, Car, Yesteryear

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Jesus, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.110, Univ of California Press

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• The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sunshine, Community, Soul

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• It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

  Washington Irving

  Autumn, Sky, Ideas

  Washington Irving (1967). “Rip Van Winkle: The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Genius, Care

  "Literary Character of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XVI, 1795-1822.

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• May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?

  Jerry Smith

  Halloween, Fate, Burning

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• The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

  John James Ingalls

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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• With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Rose, Rue

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

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• Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Inspiration, House

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• It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.

  Joel Garreau

  Age, Quality, Spirit

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.112, Broadway Books

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