Nineteen Quotes

• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, School, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Finding Yourself, Odd

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les belles images”

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• But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

  Judith Viorst

  Girl, Age, Trying

  Judith Viorst (1970). “It's hard to be hip over thirty and other tragedies of married life”

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

  George Orwell

  Tree, Chestnuts, 1984 Movie

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Mistake

  "Funny Ladies" by B. Adler, (p. 147), 2001.

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• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Worst Enemy, Nervous, Moments

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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• The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

  George Orwell

  Book, Insight, Knows

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  There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happiness, Happy, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Civilization, Umpires, Two

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Nuts, Tree

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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• If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hockey, Hair, Color

  "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

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• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  George Orwell

  Time, Freedom, Future

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  April, Cold, Great Literary

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

  Eric Idle

  Simple, Two, Roots

  "Do Not Adjust Your Set". www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1969.

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• To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

  George Orwell

  Air, Long, Next

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

  George Orwell

  War, Becoming, Accurate

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.431, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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