Thirty Quotes - Page 2

• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Loneliness, Men

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Women, Hockey, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Racing, Three

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• Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

  Mark Twain

  Feet, Long, Yards

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

  Gillian Flynn

  Night, Daylight, Hours

  Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Learning

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• Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Writing, Years, Notes

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

  Joseph Pilates

  Feel Better, Twenties, Looks

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• If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Preparation, Want

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• For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

  Dorothy Day

  Heart, Blood, Pieces

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• You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

  John Lanchester

  People, Fifty, Heard

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Mean, Roots

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• Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

  Anthony James Leggett

  Years, Twenties, Pieces

  Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Wall, Kids, Makeup

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• Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Children, Eight, Tomorrow

  "The Intensity Gap". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

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• Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.
  Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, Men, Thinking

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• How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Dark, Years

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• I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Two, America, Black

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• Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Thinking, Yankees, Years

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• So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sea, Fishing, Two

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.297, Diderot Publishing

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• I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh.

  Alex Trebek

  Senior, Years, People

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• Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

  John Sayles

  Years, Acting, Actors

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