Fourth Quotes - Page 19

• In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• 'I'm sorry,' guys are always telling women, 'but I'm just not ready to make a commitment.' Guys are in a permanent state of nonreadiness. If guys were turkey breasts, you could put them in a 350-degree oven on July Fourth, and they still wouldn't be done in time for Thanksgiving.

  Dave Barry

  Sorry, Commitment, July

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Fire, Use

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• I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

  Michael Steger

  School, Kids, Years

  "‘90210’ Star Michael Steger Opens Up About Childhood Bullying: ‘You Feel Like You’re Going To Die’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

  Laurence Sterne

  Retirement, Book, Reflection

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.139

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• This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

  Arthur Ashe

  Years, Careers, Firsts

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• I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

  Louis Sachar

  Teacher, Children, Book

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• The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20 years ago. 4D works use the idea of the fourth dimension, time, playing on such surrealistic and amazing subjects as motion relativity, space curvature and time dilation.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Years, Ideas, Space

  "Cartoonist Alizadeh, Translating World Into Humor". Press TV, April 23, 2009.

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• Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know there'll be a third and a fourth...you'll be thinking forever!

  Richard Fish

  Thinking, Forever, Next

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• When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, Kids, Math

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

  Lizzy Caplan

  School, Kids, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Editors, Able

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

  Henry Fielding

  Kings, Powerful, Passing By

  Covent Garden Journal, June 13, 1752.

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• We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

  Horace Walpole

  Fear, Pain, Loneliness

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• Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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• Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

  Jandy Nelson

  World, Chance, Remakes

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• One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Giving, Turns

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

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• It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  Arianna Huffington

  Responsibility, Self, World

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• I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Communication, Mean, People

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• Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Football, Mvp, Games

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• Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Blessed, Humor

  "The Second Hundred Days: The Quiz" by Paul Slansky, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2001.

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• These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Government, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3028, Delphi Classics

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• My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

  Sara Zarr

  Girl, Book, Stories

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• I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

  Young Jeezy

  Cat, Thinking, Years

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