Nineteen Quotes - Page 2

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

  George Orwell

  Book, Insight, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

  J. K. Rowling

  Years, Scar, Wells

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, League

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• Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Hard Work, Writing, Exercise

  W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.287, Courier Corporation

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• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Years, Play

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• Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

  Tom Lehrer

  Prayer, Mean, Lessons

  Song: Mlf Lullaby, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Age, Proud, Able

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• Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

  H. L. Mencken

  Los Angeles, Metropolis, Suburbs

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• Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

  Julie Andrews

  Failing, Soar

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

  George Harrison

  Liberty, Politics, Libertarian

  Song: Taxman

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• Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Looks, Ghost

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• I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Morning, Race

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Moon, Rocks, Air

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• He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Soccer, Player, Years

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