Life . . . punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line — in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business, and government. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. —Florence King More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Climate change — I had that question, all you climate-change people. We just — you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing. —Candy Crowley, on omitting a question about global warming during the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space. —Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. —Donald Barthelme More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Am I the person who used to wake in the middle of the night and laugh with the joy of living? Who worried about the existence of God, and danced with young ladies till long after daybreak? Who sang "Auld Lang Syne" and howled with sentiment, and more than once gazed at the full moon through a blur of great, romantic tears? —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: God joy tears moon dancing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As he drove the little Ford safely to its garage, he remembered for the first time in years when he was young and brash, a student in New York, and the shriek and horror and unholy smother of the subway had its original meaning for him as the lilt and expectation of love. —Eudora Welty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Teenagers have no monopoly on [adolescent behavior], except insofar as we are in fact a teenage society — a society that likes to play "chicken" not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be young is all there is in the world. . . . [Adults] talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) — but it's all worry and headaches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. . . . Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds. —Wallace Stevens More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fuck. I hate all this stuff. How old do you have to get before it stops? —Nick Hornby More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have no contempt for that time of life when our friendships are most passionate and our passions incorrigible and none of our sentiments yet compromised by greed or cowardice or disappointment. The volatility and intensity of adolescence are qualities we should aspire to preserve. —Edmund White More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc. —Anne Frank, age thirteen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I couldn't remember how to forget myself. I didn't want to think about myself, to reckon myself in, to deal with myself every livelong minute on top of everything else — but swerve as I might, I couldn't avoid it. I was a boulder blocking my own path. I was a dog barking between my own ears, a barking dog who wouldn't hush. So this was adolescence. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email