Walter B. Pitkin Quotes

Life begins at age forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

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• Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Always
  • Begins

• I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Past
  • Best
  • Forty

• Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Years
  • Succeed
  • Forty

• The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Book
  • Revelations

• Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Easy
  • Ego
  • Tough

• I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Age
  • Interesting
  • Couple

• Everything begins and ends with that special person's presence. All you want is them, around you.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Want
  • Presence
  • Begins

• What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Ends
  • Salvation
  • Theology

• All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

  

  Plato
  • Place
  • Recognition
  • Begins

• Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Anger
  • Begins
  • Folly

• Existence begins in every instant.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Instant
  • Begins

• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Writing
  • Husband
  • Week

• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brother
  • Thousand
  • Quantity

• My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Ends
  • Conscience
  • Begins

• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Begins
  • Egotism
  • Lives For Others

• Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sky
  • Ends
  • Horizon

• There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • War
  • Looks
  • Damage

• What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nothing
  • Begins
  • Adoring

• The poems I did write there in Harvard include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Writing
  • Forty
  • Harvard

• Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action.

  

  David Bornstein
  • Change
  • Action
  • Decision

• You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

  

  David Bowie
  • Feels
  • Incredibles
  • Forty

• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Political

• We have momentum on our side ... I think we'll have a good result.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Good
  • Result
  • Momentum

• Life begins at age forty.

  

  Walter B. Pitkin
  • Begins
  • Forty