Seven Quotes

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Mistake, Fall

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• My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  Saina Nehwal

  Girl, Uncles, Children

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• Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Doe, Attention

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  I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

  Crazy Horse

  Native American, Color, Circles

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• Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

  Morgan Freeman

  Significant, Find Me, Amount

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  My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  Jack Benny

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
  1. Think short term.
  2. Be greedy.
  3. Believe in the greater fool
  4. Run with the herd.
  5. Overgeneralize
  6. Be trendy
  7. Play with other people's money

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

  Leonora Carrington

  Cat, People, Ifs

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• It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Sadness, Fifteen, Hours

  Song: Nothing Compares To You

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• I'm the youngest of seven kids.

  Sean William Scott

  Kids

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• I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

  Grace Paley

  Pages, Novel

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• I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Writing, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I think while zealots fast and frown,
  And fight for two or seven,
  That there are fifty roads to town,
  And rather more to Heaven.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.266

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• The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

  Louise Bernikow

  Loneliness, Average, Waiting

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Cows, Rich, Poor

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.150, Northwestern University Press

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

  Rumer Godden

  People, Hurtful, Three

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.

  Billie Burke

  Age, Cheese, Forty

  Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.160, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  College, Causes, Students

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• What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Summer, Princess

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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