Seventies Quotes - Page 14

• In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Blow, Russia, Years

  Roger Lowenstein (2000). “When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management”, Random House Incorporated

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Keys

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• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Years, Indulge In, Interesting

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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• There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

  Hugh Prather

  Girl, Years, People

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, Conari Press

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• Get transported back to the seventies !

  Tom Evans

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• The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

  Coretta Scott King

  Thinking, Challenges, Tactics

  "The Quotable Woman". Book by Elaine Partnow, p. 390, 1978.

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• I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

  William Robertson Nicoll

  Success, Time, Zenith

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• Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Years, Looks, World

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Block, Sea

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Population, Female, Vote

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• I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ninety, Young, Dies

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• I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

  James Iha

  New York, Kids, Artist

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• I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

  Lord Dunsany

  Imagination, Needs, Becoming

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• I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.

  Stephen Roche

  Beautiful, Grandfather, Riding

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• All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Men, Errors

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• Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

  Bob Hope

  Years, One Line, Speechless

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

  Kent Beck

  Mean, Quaint, Source

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• Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

  Lee Strasberg

  Art, Hard Work, Twenties

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• When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Cfs, Forgiving

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.250, Paulist Press

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  William Segal

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Good Man, True Or False

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

  Aimee Carter

  Years, Things Change, Frightening

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• I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.

  Robert Pattinson

  Writing, Years, Giving

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• I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world. . . . I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Humanity, Important, Needs

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• We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Age, Forget, Stills

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