Mature Quotes - Page 27

• Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

  Josh Billings

  Years, Fancy, Admiration

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• What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, God, Art

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Growth, Doe, Four

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Fernando J. Corbato, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 34, Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Girl, Death, Years

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• With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

  Margaret Mead

  Stress, Next, Cases

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

  Maria Callas

  Artist, Thinking, Different

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mirrors, Icons

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Twenties, Alekhine

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• Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Dad, Father

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Attitude, Military, War

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• Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.

  Tom Watson

  Wrestling, Winning, Pay

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• Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Simple, Feelings

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Errors, Two

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

  George P. Baker

  Immature, Impulse, Humans

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• At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

  Bruce Beresford

  Thinking, Hbo, Film

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• At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

  John Piper

  Heart, Responsibility, Men

  John Piper (1990). “What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible”

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• But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fashion, Past, Years

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• The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.

  John Piper

  Heart, Men, Way

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• Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

  William Bennett

  Taken, Responsibility, People

  William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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• I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

  Marlon Wayans

  Kings, Sound, Roles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

  Molly Ringwald

  Thinking, Choices, Being Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Responsibility, Celibacy

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

  Cate Blanchett

  Law, Differences, Important

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have been maturing as a teacher.

  W. Howard Lester

  Teacher, Has Beens

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• War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

  Rex Stout

  War, Men, Pickles

  Rex Stout (2010). “Over My Dead Body”, p.119, Bantam

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