Thirty Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sexy, Eight, Twenties

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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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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• There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Future, Dip, Twenties

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.90

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• FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world

  Jim Krusoe

  Sexy, Sweet, Smart

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• I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [Laâbi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Home, Years, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.

  Vera Brosgol

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Mother, Children

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

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• Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

  Israel Broussard

  Children, Phones, Our Generation

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

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• But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.

  Mickey Wright

  Golf, Differences, Different

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• If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

  Edward Albee

  Past, Boys, Talking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.

  Doc Childre

  Lying, Heart, Technology

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• No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Believe, Writing, Sea

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• Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

  Christine Sneed

  Years, Pandora's Box, Facts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Strong, Father

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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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• Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

  Anjelica Huston

  Giving Up, Years, Smoking

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• Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Drug, Mind

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• The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Christian, Character, Years

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