Eighteen Quotes - Page 4

• As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

  Sarah Dessen

  Age, Improvement, Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.116, Penguin

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• It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

  John Green

  Should Have, Twenties, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Believe, Long

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• And they say
  She's in the class A Team
  Stuck in her daydream
  Been that way since eighteen, but lately,
  Her face seems
  Slowly sinking, wasting
  Crumbling like pastries
  And they scream
  The worst things in life come free to us
  Cos we're just under the upperhand
  Go mad for a couple grams
  And she don't want to go outside tonight
  And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
  Or sells love to another man
  It's too cold outside
  For angels to fly
  Angels to fly

  Ed Sheeran

  Couple, Team, Angel

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• Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

  Thomas Harris

  Breathing, Half, Faust

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• Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Three, Abstract, Minutes

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• Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

  Winsor McCay

  Moon, Way, Slides

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• Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

  Brian Leetch

  Hurt, Years, Knee Injuries

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• On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Average, Physicians, Stories

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Long, Twenties

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• Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

  Charlie Munger

  Over You, Cards, Credit

  "4 Steps To Getting Rich From Warren Buffett's Right-Hand Man" by Chuck Saletta, www.businessinsider.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Real, Heart

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• That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

  Michael Cunningham

  Summer, Happens

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.95, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

  Paul Auster

  Age, Different, Way

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.21, Penguin

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• When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  High School, Age, Emotion

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• The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, Jeans, Guy

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• Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

  David Wilkerson

  Heart, Squares, Years

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• Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

  Martin Yan

  Past, America, Age

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• I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

  Alber Elbaz

  Moving, Creating, Desire

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• I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Months, Topics

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• "I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Regret, Smart

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, June 16, 2009.

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• He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.

  Richelle Mead

  My Boyfriend, Adults, Needs

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous eighteen years? This is the essential conundrum. Can we teach these relatively young dogs new tricks? I believe that we can.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Dog, Teenager, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,” I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. “That’s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.

  Ilona Andrews

  Two, Odds, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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