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If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person. — Rolf Harris

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. — Annie Dillard

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If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. — Daniel Quinn

It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning. — Glenn Frey

Magick is an art; using reality and the world as its canvas. — Dacha Avelin

People of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. — Zicheng Hong

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

I am something new, and in this old world steeped in legends, ancestors, and what came before, something new is something very special. — Pierce Brown

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger. — Debasish Mridha

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will. — Marshall McLuhan

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority. — Rose Wilder Lane

The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world. — Padgett Powell

Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie. — Simon Pegg

Witchcraft is a way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation. — Dacha Avelin

The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new. — Hunter Murphy

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be. — George Eliot

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms. — Dogen

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you. — L.M. Montgomery

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays. — Thich Nhat Hanh

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words. — Jack Kerouac

New technologies compete with old ones - for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view. — Neil Postman

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad. — Phil Ochs

It's a funny old world. Once you realize that, you're halfway there. — Maeve Binchy

I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do. — Sam The Sham

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying. — Wilkie Collins

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. — Frank Stella

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! — Matsuo Basho

It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school. — Rick Mercer

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness. — Wayne W. Dyer

There is poetry of sailing as old as the world, — E.L. James

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world ... — Jose Saramago

Our moon," he answered, "is not like yours-the old cinder of a burnt-out world; her beams embalm the dead, not corrupt them. — George MacDonald

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new. — Neil Young

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old — Jeremy Aldana

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. — Henry David Thoreau

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. — Peggy Noonan

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

If we must encounter each other, let's do it the old way - in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us. — Meghan Tifft

There isn't a new sorrow in the world
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way. — Myrtle Reed

We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one. — Jennifer Niven

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. — Maurice Sendak

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care — Charles Bukowski

There was too much magic in the world to become bitter and jaded and growing up didn't have to mean growing old. — Lili Valente

The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom. — Carrie Vaughn

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official. — Sebastian Coe

Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake. — Liane Moriarty

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You — Chris Cleave

You can't use an old map to explore a new world. — Albert Einstein

Maybe here in the ruins of the old world, they could start something new. — Kass Morgan

She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world. — Beverly Cleary

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. — Robin Hobb

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. — Willa Cather

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. — Ted Hughes

We're gonna be ... I mean people like you and me ... we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists. — Armistead Maupin

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me. — Carrie Underwood

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. — Lucinda Williams

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I — John Green

You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing. — Shirley Sealy

Fifteen years old! Okay, okay. In our part of the world that's not so young. — Salman Rushdie

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young. — Madame De Stael

The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo. — Madchen Amick

I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world. — Tricia Helfer

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. — Quincy Jones

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old. — Lenny Kravitz

Every spoken sentence beginning with 'I Am' is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely. — Dacha Avelin

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating. — Brittany Bowe

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady. — Florence King

Spellwork is a form of creation. Manifesting the invisible and the imaginable into real life verifiable forms, through perfectly natural means. — Dacha Avelin

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. — Jim Harrison

I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old. — V.C. Andrews

Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty. — Stephen King

Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby. — A.B. Shepherd

A witch works with the truth of the Earth itself. — Dacha Avelin

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. — Robert Ludlum

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed. — Mardy Grothe

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books. — Lance Olsen

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again. — Johnny Vegas

now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Roseville Nidea

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order. — Bobby Fischer

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What — Terry Pratchett

The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage. — Raymond Kwok

This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal. — Robert Harris

Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration. — Victoria Forester

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond. — Jimmy Fallon

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rooney

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head. — Clive Barker

Never see the world with am infant eye, but let it be as old as you. — Michael Bassey Johnson