Sixteen Quotes - Page 6

• Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Opportunity, Next Day, Appreciate

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Work, Debt, Another Day

  Song: Sixteen Tons

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• The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Country, Integrity, Independent

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• A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  Marie Stopes

  Beautiful, Space, Soul

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• It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

  Steven Stamkos

  Games, Careers, Coaching

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• Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

  Michelangelo

  Spiritual, Religious, War

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• I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've listened to and what they're going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, "God, this is great." It's gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, Echoes, People

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• Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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• Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Dark, Night, Pigs

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• Dance on, dance on, we see, we see
  Youth goes, alack, and with it glee,
  A boy the old man ne'er can be;
  Maternal thirty scarce can find
  The sweet sixteen long left behind.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sweet, Boys, Men

  "Youth and Age". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough,

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• I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Father, Men, Age

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• Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

  Mark McGwire

  Player, Special, Fifty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Artist, Color, Beginners

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• When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

  Mordecai Richler

  Dad, Children, Growing Up

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• Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Eight, Years, Written

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• I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Hypocrite, Views, Laughing

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• Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.

  Amy Sedaris

  Land, Two, Giving

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• Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Time, Believe, Thinking

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• I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

  Steven Spielberg

  Summer, Cousin, Drama

  Source: www.ign.com

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• To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

  Annie Fellows Johnston

  Wings, Youth, Flight

  Annie Fellows Johnston (1914). “Mary Ware: The Little Colonel's Chum”, p.34, Pelican Publishing

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• The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.

  Diana Athill

  Horse, Eight, Order

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• I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

  Tobsha Learner

  Atheist, Father, Philosophy

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• Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Team, Sanity

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.282, Lulu.com

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• I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

  Winston Churchill

  Epilepsy, Games, Play

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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