If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. John Burroughs
If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.Shaun White
If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women. Anthony Bourdain
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers. Christopher McDougall
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night. Mark Spitz
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know. Peter Ackroyd
Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard. Jim Thome
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home. Mary Kay Blakely
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. Lynn Abbey
It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one. Mary Lou Retton
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.Charles Dickens
It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.Brian P.Cleary
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Jared Diamond
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. Lance Armstrong