Fifth Quotes - Page 15

• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Voice, Overcoming

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Moving, Rights, Organization

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• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• I had a job interview at an insurance company once, and the lady said 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I said, 'Celebrating the fifth year anniversary of you asking me this question!'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes - ever! But when people who usually go barefoot usually wear shoes, their feet begin to suffer. As often as possible, walk barefoot on the beach, in your yard, or at least around the house. Walking in the grass or sand massages your feet, strengthens your muscles and feels very relaxing...If you can cut back on wearing shoes by 30 percent, you will save wear and tear on your feet and extend the life of your shoes.

  Stephanie Tourles

  Beach, Cutting, Journey

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• Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

  Eric Church

  Brother, Long, Lines

  Song: Sinners Like Me, Album: Sinners Like Me, 2006

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• The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.

  Erwin Griswold

  Struggle, Men, Rocks

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• But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

  George Berkeley

  Mistake, Math, Understanding

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• As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.

  Richard Wiseman

  Heart, Psychics, Feelings

  Richard Wiseman (2011). “Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

  Al Oerter

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Trying, Faces

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• Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their
  heads.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Iraq, Iran

  "Year in Review". Rolling Stone, December 19, 1985.

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• There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Fun, Way, Shifting

  Lewis Hamilton's Qualifying Press Conference, www.crash.net. March 15, 2014.

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, White, Russia

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• That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

  George Best

  Icons, Found, Freaky

  George Best (2012). “Blessed - The Autobiography”, p.196, Random House

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• New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, New York, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

  Jules Romains

  Fashion, New York, Block

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• But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.

  Adrian Beltre

  Worry, Trying, Bullets

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• When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty solid relay, so we thought we could take a crack at the U.S. Open record tonight. We're all a little tired, but that's fifth-fastest American relay ever, so it's not a bad time. We ended tonight on a great note.

  Michael Phelps

  Tired, Swimming, Race

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• And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.

  Nicki Minaj

  Real, Home, Barbie

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• You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Science, Men

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• Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Years, Law

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• I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

  Alan Moore

  People, Islam, Belief

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• I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Thinking, Glasses

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