Quotes About Maturity

Una mujer como usted debe haber roto muchos corazones... - En el pasado, tal vez. A mi edad, el único corazón que uno rompe es el propio.

You told us once not to be in such a hurry to grow up, but I don't see any way we could have avoided it. There was always someone out there ready to carve away another chunk of our innocence. Maybe because theirs was already gone and they couldn't stand the sight of our ignorant happiness. Because that's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

Everyone know that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school. Seriously, everyone knows it. You never hear someone say, "Oh, wow, you're seventeen and you really like him? That's great, you should do whatever it takes to get him, even if it means wrecking your whole like.

Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.

Pretty young for a waiter, aren't you?" "I'm older than I look," Clancy assured her. "You better be because you look about nine." Clancy decided he did not like this woman.

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

I am not thrilled by the idea that I am entering a vague in-between, after the intensity of conversion and before the calm wisdom of cronehood.

This was when I was a teenager and thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

This was when I thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

I want to be a wise woman

The point of life is not to be a young girl forever, unless you're particularly vapid and stupid... There ain't nothing happening on a roll of white paper

Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

You've been moping around for too long...It's time you grew into your next self.

I've been thinking back to when I was younger, before I had a clue about benzos or purple drank or even weed. I was so innocent. I wish I could go back and be that dumbshit kid again, naïve and full of hope.

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Having a child does not change you so much as amplify whatever is unresolved.

But Jess had outgrown that. And anyway, the twins weren't so exactly alike. Eddie was quiet and serious. Sam never shut up and he had a fearless streak that sometimes got all three of them into big trouble.

Don't worry about middle age ?????

Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.

The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence × 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.