Fourteen Quotes - Page 4

• I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.

  Gary Reilly

  Heart, Years, Occupation

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• I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

  Richard Helms

  Years, People, Done

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• The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

  Patrick MacGill

  Soldier, Meals, Afternoon

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

  Jim Capaldi

  Age, Energy, Band

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• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

  D. A. Carson

  Liars, Hate, Wrath

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• After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

  Annie Oakley

  Country, Eye, Land

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• There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Fall, Heart

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• I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

  Norman Wisdom

  Army, Boys, Lucky

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

  Samuel Shem

  Strong, Numbers, Body

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• By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Support

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.

  Ellen Potter

  Passion, Adventure, Should Have

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.131, Macmillan

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• What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

  Menachem Begin

  Fighting, Government, Israel

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• One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

  Chuck Barris

  Pie, Delicious, Pieces

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• I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

  Melissa Bank

  Teacher, Boys, Rejection

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.88, Penguin

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• I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Morning, Nice

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Independent, Science, Views

  "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".

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• There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Years, Mecca, Prophet

  "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.

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• In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts.

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Past, Israel

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• How old are you? Twelve?" "Fourteen & three quarters." His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters." "Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?" "Seventeen and two fifths." Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Years, Two

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• ...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

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• Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Thinking, Rocks

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• People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

  Charles Portis

  Girl, Horse, Father

  "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.

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• An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

  Benjamin Carson

  Knowledge, Learning, Helping Others

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• All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Two, Yellow

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