Thirty Years Quotes - Page 9

• For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wall, Stress, Stupid

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• In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Years, Religion

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Years, People, Giving

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• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Years, May

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

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• I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.58, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

  Martin Feldstein

  Years, Cost, Pay

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• I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Thinking, Cities, Electrical Power

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• I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

  Charles Mingus

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

  "Setting the Tempo: Fifty Years of Great Jazz Liner Notes". Book by Tom Piazza, 1996.

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• We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Years, Wings, Progress

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  Tacitus

  Art, Years, Medicine

  "Annals", Book VI, Chapter XLVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p.502-04, 1922.

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• Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

  William J. Clinton

  Kings, Government, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

  Peter York

  Real, Class, Hair

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• For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

  David Horowitz

  Years, Decision, Foundation

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• For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Opportunity, Years

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo goes toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Tired, Years

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• And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Writing, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

  Mickey Rooney

  Boys, Years, Thirty

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• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Years, Poet

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

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• The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Years, Misery

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, September 1, 2004.

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• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

  Harlan Ellison

  Peace, War, Race

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• The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Father, Years

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.35, InterVarsity Press

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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