Fifty Quotes - Page 15

• Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mother, Dad, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Regret, Feelings, Important

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• If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Reading, Phases

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• Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Time, Boys

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Peace, Passion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 30, 1799.

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• Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Freedom, Government, Democracy

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• I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Years, Iraq, Giving

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  Wendell Willkie

  Science, Years, Analysis

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Maturity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

  Eli Wallach

  Dollars, Cold, Courses

  "Batman: The Duo Defy". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

  Shelby Foote

  Memories, War, Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

  Iggy Pop

  Dark, Two, Tunes

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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• When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.

  Louis Armstrong

  Giving, Tunes, Dollars

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• What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?

  William J. Clinton

  Men

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• Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mother, Dad, Love You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Taken, Eye

  Speech in House of Commons, 28 Jan. 1931

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• Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Crazy, Men, Bushido

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• Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

  Rachel Marsden

  Sleep, People, Want

  "Rachel Marsden’s Weird Career" by Rebecca Traister, thetyee.ca. April 5, 2007.

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• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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• I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Years, Packing, Full Life

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• If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

  Mickey Gilley

  Cutting, Pockets, Albums

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• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Men, Percentages

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• The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

  Stendhal

  Ambition, Men, Years

  Stendhal (2011). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.150, Modern Library

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Birthday, Age, Tonight

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