Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Writing
  • Taken
  • Capacity

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Dad

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Love
  • Grandfather

• Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Just
  • Cause
  • Stands

• I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Change
  • Artist
  • Politics

• Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Body

• Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Understanding

• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Long
  • Success
  • Wish

• Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Writing

• Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I miss journalism an awful lot.

  

  Kevin Barry

• When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rock

• If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind of don't, which is not really good - I can learn more and more about their lives, and that makes me a more open person and a more accepting person.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Effort
  • Collaboration
  • Matrix

• They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Work
  • Live
  • Earth

• But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Grace

• When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.

  

  Brigham Young
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Saviour

• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Born
  • Parent
  • Movement

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Habit
  • Start

• Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Habit
  • Becoming
  • Afford