Forty Quotes - Page 6

• In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Optimism, Good Health, Wanted

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• A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  School, Mean, Simple

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.40, Regent College Publishing

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• One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cutting, Average

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1988.

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• In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

  George S. Patton

  Encouraging, Believe, Responsibility

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• Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

  Dizzy Dean

  Winning, Games, Pitching

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• Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.

  Luis Tiant

  Baseball, Player, Years

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• I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

  Daniela Pestova

  Writing, Bumps, Paper

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• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  Chris Pine

  Dad, Crazy, Grandmother

  "Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  Patrick Macnee

  Jobs, Years, People

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• My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

  Janet McTeer

  Mother, Father, Years

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

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• I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country — or maybe forty-four in a row. But that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Country, Believe

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• There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

  Walter Lord

  Couple, Thinking, Talking

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• Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

  Paul Simon

  Doors, Two, Numbers

  Song: When Numbers Get Serious, Album: Hearts and Bones

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• Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

  Tom Brokaw

  Years, Scandal, Life Is

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• It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

  Elliott Abrams

  Kings, Couple, Thinking

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• That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

  Mick Ralphs

  Song, Writing, Twenties

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• I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

  Austin Peck

  Thinking, Play, Two

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• The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Years, Fifty

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• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Book, Humble, Illusions Of Grandeur

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• Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

  Aldous Huxley

  Women, Eggs, Female

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• Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Gravestone, Scarce

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

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• I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Years, Two

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Dry Up, Paint, I Can

  San Diego Museum of Art, Nora Desloge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Phillip Dennis Cate, Julia Frey (1989). “Toulouse-Lautrec: the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, San Diego Museum of Art”, Museum

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• Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

  Bill Wyman

  Twenties, Advertising, Thirty

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• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, School, Frustration

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