Forty Quotes - Page 8

• My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Parent, Together

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• In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

  Donald Hall

  Basketball, Football, Running

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• Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
  Wise--deluded man!

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Horse, Men

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• Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.

  Jon Stewart

  Holiday, Years, One Day

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• That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.

  Brother Lawrence

  Flower, Winter, Views

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.3, Booklassic

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• Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Respect, Years, Enjoy Life

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.206

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• The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth's prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it.

  Lester Sumrall

  Christian, Prayer, Integrity

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• 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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• It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.

  Abram Hoffer

  Years, Medicine, Physicians

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• There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Church, Fasting, Individual

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.61, Charisma Media

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• Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

  Clarence DeMar

  Endurance, Four, Fifty

  Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.143, BookBaby

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

  Ellen G. White

  Israel, Years, Land

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• Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Mistake, Simple, Silence

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• Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Infinite Time, Doe

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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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• Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cities, Paris, Care

  Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Age, Looks, Flesh

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhism, Discovery, Years

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• Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

  Jonah

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• Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011

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• I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Pope Pius IX

  Catholicism, Ifs

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• I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had bad skin as a teenager and I am a shy person, but I think I am in the perfect business to fight my insecurities. You have to learn to love yourself and say 'I am pretty cool' instead of being so critical. You can easily fall into the trap of doing that.

  Chris Pine

  Teenager, Fall, Love You

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

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• Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

  Jay Samit

  Jobs, Hate, Work You Love

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015

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