Forty Quotes - Page 10

• Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

  Xiang Yu

  Firefly, Men, Volcanoes

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• Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.

  Susun Weed

  Wise, Children, Pregnancy

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• In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Power, Needs, Management

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• Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

  Jonah

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• The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

  Jen Lancaster

  Perspective, Missing, Tears

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• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

  Ida Rolf

  Pain, War, Fighting

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• The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

  Paul Dickson

  Age, Comfort, Realization

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• I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Men, Tails

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• The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

  Brian Welch

  Jesus, Zero, Important

  Brian Welch (2010). “Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

  Harold Nicolson

  School, Age, Puff

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• Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

  Mother Teresa

  Two, That One Person, Thousand

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• Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Kings, Thinking, Years

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• Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Hair, Ego, Would Be

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• You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

  John Lanchester

  People, Fifty, Thirty

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

  Marlon Brando

  Mean, Purpose, Cents

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• If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

  Josh McDowell

  Bible, Jesus, Dad

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• Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

  Elif Safak

  Gratitude, Doors, Being Thankful

  "The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi". Book by Elif Safak, 2010.

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• Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

  Roger Ballen

  Black And White, Past, Journey

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• Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

  Rumi

  Worry, Trying, Way

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• I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Change, Song, Play

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• If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Thinking

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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

  Joan Cusack

  Friendship, Play, Four

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• Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Country, Successful, Years

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