Zitat des Tages über Alte / Old One:
When a new book is published, read an old one.
What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and heavy. I like simple and clean.
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.
For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.
I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
Clearly, Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined to replace the old one.
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'