Forty Quotes - Page 30

• This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.

  H. G. Wells

  Play, Order, Age

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• A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Men, Years

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 141

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• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Eight, Years, People

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• My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

  Moliere

  Talking, Years, Knowing

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• Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

  Albie Sachs

  Moving, Two, Soul

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• Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

  Elif Safak

  Dream, Falling In Love, Hate

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• Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Romance, Lifetime

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• There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Long, Society

  International Herald Tribune, October 31, 1990.

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Police

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

  Shenae Grimes

  Morning, Coffee, Care

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• Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

  Nikki Haley

  Years, Parent, South Carolina

  Nikki Haley RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

  Richard Hammond

  Brilliant

  "Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

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• I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Revenge, Eye, Retribution

  Song: A Countryboy Can Survive

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• It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Feet, Air

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.47, Random House

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• Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, President, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

  Hugh Leonard

  Years, Wife, Blitz

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• One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

  Warren Buffett

  Responsibility, Long, Effort

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• There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don't feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

  Robert Plant

  Mirrors, People, Age

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, Guy, Albums

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

  Hilton Als

  Sadness, People, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Years, Two, Dying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Fantastic, Decades

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Issues, Identity Politics

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Men, Medicine, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

  Chris Hegedus

  Men, Editing, Years

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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