Beyond your... number of years

One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.
-Rex Stout, novelist (1886-1975) [Nixon resigned in 1974.]

...frightfulness is temporary

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
-Walt Disney, entrepreneur and animator (1901-1966)

you choose to...

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.

-Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)

Landscape of ...

We are a landscape of all we have seen.
-Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and architect (1904-1988)

can betray is...

All a man can betray is his conscience.
-Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924)