John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,
John Kenneth Galbraith
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Origen
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
Laura Marling
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
Babyface
Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
Irving Azoff
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
Victor LaValle
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
Edith Stein
I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
K. A. Applegate
I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
Tahyna Tozzi
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
Tatiana Maslany
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
Nathan Myhrvold
My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!
Abbey Clancy
The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
Edith Pearlman
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Washington Irving