A Quote by Jean Rhys

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Jean Rhys

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Jean Rhys
English - Novelist
August 24, 1894 - May 14, 1979

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Napoleon Hill

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Mary Collyer

All guys are jerks but they get hotter with age and we learn to be more tolerant.

Kristen Bell

Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

Justin Rosenstein

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Josh Billings

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Quintilian

Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.

Zan Perrion

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Martin Amis

There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks. Generally they are. I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting and it's not true.

Alice Englert

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

Will Wright

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For female wrestlers, it's always such a thin line, because every sport has its age limits, but when it comes to women, we seem to reach those age limits more quickly.

Brandi Rhodes

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Dean Koontz

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

George MacDonald

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

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