Mature Quotes - Page 26

• When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

  Mordecai Richler

  Dad, Children, Growing Up

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• Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for
  you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Air, Liberty

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• You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.

  Karen MacNeil

  Wine, Robins, Different

  "Wine varietals: A glossary". www.cnn.com.

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• I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, Two, Laughing

  Interview with Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. October 28, 1996.

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• By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Mind, Tradition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

  Amanda Bynes

  Taken, Average, People

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• Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.

  Dean Koontz

  Science, Men, Choices

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• He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Matter, Deliberation

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Today, Glee

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• It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

  Aaliyah

  Mature Person, Matter, Wanted

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• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

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• You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

  Jim James

  War, Age, Mature Love

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• Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesnt mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.

  Kezia Dugdale

  Goodbye, Love You, Mean

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• The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Easier, Clear

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• A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Integrity

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• A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Freedom, Integrity

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• I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Believe, America, Evidence

  "In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961".

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• Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Want, Way

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books

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• I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny Marriage, Kitchen, Needs

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• We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Vision, Details

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• The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

  John Keats

  Life, Ambition, Character

  'Endymion' (1818) preface

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• What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Mature Person, Missing

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• Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Kindness, People, Complaining

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• I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

  Iggy Pop

  Inspirational, Teenage, Kids

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