Fifty Quotes - Page 40

• Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

  Richard Jeni

  Divorce, Looks, Sides

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• We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, People, Giving

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

  Kenny Baker

  Beer, Glasses, Play

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• Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

  Rudy Wiebe

  People, Generations, Stories

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• I can eat fifty eggs.

  Paul Newman

  Eggs, I Can

  "Fictional character: Luke". "Cool Hand Luke", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Differences, United States, Republican

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• If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Communication, Years, Foundation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.

  Julia Cameron

  Flower, Exercise, Two

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  Elie Faure

  Twilight, Past, Symphony

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• Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me that wants to follow God --- wholeheartedly, completely and full throttle, wherever He may lead. I don't want to look back fifty years from now and think, What if I had trusted God? Where would I be?

  Tricia Goyer

  Thinking, Years, People

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Jan 24, 2015

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• I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
  I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
  'What does that mean?'
  'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.

  Robin Epstein

  Mom, Hate, Mean

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.83, Penguin

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• Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  War, Home, Years

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• After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.

  Raghad Hussein

  Running, Brother, Dad

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• I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

  James Dickey

  Sound, Needs, Spontaneous

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• Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

  Mary Oliver

  Adjectives And Adverbs, Cents, Five

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

  Mary Oliver

  Feels, Forty, My Own

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

  Martin Niemoller

  Father, Heart, Eye

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• Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

  Anne Rice

  Noise, Whipping, Shows

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• Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

  John Lydon

  Love Is, Two, Mind

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• It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, People, Devil

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison”

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• In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

  Erich Fromm

  Years, Development, Next

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Ideas, Black

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Reason

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.84, BoD - Books on Demand

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• You know, Longmire and all those other great (whodunit) series, I would love to one of those. We just haven't found the right one...I really am, I think, an old soul, I think, in the acting world. I'm very comfortable in the fifty, sixties era. I love it.

  Drew Waters

  Thinking, Soul, Acting

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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