Old Man Quotes
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“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...”
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“It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.”
― 丕賱賯乇丌賳 丕賱賰乇賷賲
― 丕賱賯乇丌賳 丕賱賰乇賷賲

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
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“The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.
If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.
Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.
And time sings.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.
Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.
And time sings.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:
Bringing the world to the window.”
― Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:
Bringing the world to the window.”
― Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.”
― The Xactilias Project
― The Xactilias Project

“After the wink, his head moved down and his eyes made a beeline to my chest. Ugh. The old man felt me up with his eyes. Men really are all just alike鈥攏o matter the age. He was a flirtatious old fossil.”
― Flip That Haunted House
― Flip That Haunted House

“He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.”
― Trout Fishing in America
― Trout Fishing in America

“... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale

“Sonny shows me his phone. It鈥檚 a text message from Rapid, sent this morning, and it consists of one simple-but-not-so-simple question: Wanna meet up? My mouth drops. 鈥淪eriously?鈥� 鈥淪eriously,鈥� Sonny says. 鈥淗oly shit.鈥�
There鈥檚 one problem though. 鈥淲hy haven鈥檛 you responded?鈥� 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know,鈥� he says. 鈥淧art of me is like, hell yeah. The other part feels like this shit is too good to be true. What if he鈥檚 really a fifty-year-old man who lives in his mom鈥檚 basement and has a malicious plot to murder me and leave my body parts spread out across his backyard, unknown to anyone, until twenty years from now when a stray dog sniffs me out?鈥� I stare at him.
鈥淭he specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes.”
― On the Come Up
There鈥檚 one problem though. 鈥淲hy haven鈥檛 you responded?鈥� 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know,鈥� he says. 鈥淧art of me is like, hell yeah. The other part feels like this shit is too good to be true. What if he鈥檚 really a fifty-year-old man who lives in his mom鈥檚 basement and has a malicious plot to murder me and leave my body parts spread out across his backyard, unknown to anyone, until twenty years from now when a stray dog sniffs me out?鈥� I stare at him.
鈥淭he specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes.”
― On the Come Up

“Men will always be at battle,鈥� the little girl said with an uncanny maturity. With her stride unbroken, she continued 鈥淲hether that battle is on a battlefield like this one, or on the most difficult battlefield of the heart and mind. It really doesn鈥檛 matter all that much, men will battle.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Her erke臒in, bu arada babam谋n da, mutlulu臒u yakalamak i莽in yanl谋艧 yollara da sapmaya hakk谋 oldu臒unu ancak sa莽lar谋ma aklar d眉艧t眉臒眉 zaman anlad谋m. Ancak o zaman onun yanl谋艧lar谋na sayg谋 duymaya ba艧lad谋m. Senin de benim yanl谋艧lar谋ma benzer sayg谋y谋 duyman谋 dilerim o臒lum. Senin de kimi zamanlar b枚yle yanl谋艧lara d眉艧meni dilerim. Ve umar谋m sen de ac谋mas谋zl谋k noktas谋na varana dek seversin ve dilerim sen de ya艧am谋n soylu 莽ekiciliklerini uzun s眉re alg谋layabilesin.”
― Leo Africanus
― Leo Africanus

“In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be carved out by way of old ones. The old stands tall and firm and befriends the new to fall into place, with refined maturity and greater understanding and cultured admiration. It's simply pure Magic.”
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“So, this is retirement? This feeling of emptiness?”
― L'obsolescence programm茅e de nos sentiments
― L'obsolescence programm茅e de nos sentiments

“Testosterone Autism: The person beset by this ailment....develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“...a turtle鈥檚 heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and
butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and
hands are like theirs.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and
hands are like theirs.”
― The Old Man and the Sea

“Now, it鈥檚 time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that鈥檚 gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin鈥� a lie to his son from his death bed. What鈥檚 the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?”
― An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
― An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“If you say, 鈥楴ow I look like an old man鈥�, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 鈥楴o, I look like a young man now鈥�, you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 鈥楻eal form of the Self鈥� (mood swaroop).”
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“His body was shriveled like a leaf that has left its tree and that has been curled by time about its natural lines.”
― The Thugs & a Courtesan
― The Thugs & a Courtesan

“There鈥檚 something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable.”
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
― The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“So what happens when proovs get old?" he asks, as if the subject is close to his heart. "They age gracefully," Lanaya says with a smile. "That's the best we can do.”
― The Last Book in the Universe
― The Last Book in the Universe

“Hey, now, old man. Chill your calcium-deprived bones and stop treating her like crap, or I鈥檒l have to kick your ass.”
― Scandalous
― Scandalous

“...I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them either...”
― "It's a Wonderful Life" the screenplay
― "It's a Wonderful Life" the screenplay
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