I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!
I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
Pornography changes the attitudes and lifestyles of those who consume it, no matter how old a person is.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.