Twenties Quotes - Page 10

• The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Firsts, Century, Staying

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• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Exercise, Drug, Towns

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• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Children, Book, Past

  John Kendrick Bangs (2014). “The Autobiography of Methuselah”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm greedier than anyone. I don't want some half-assed happiness I
  don't need some partial warmth. I want a happiness that goes on forever.
  That's impossible, though! I don't know why it is, but in this world,
  some interference is sure to come. Important things break right away.
  I've been alive for twenty-two years, and I know at least this much. It
  doesn't matter what the thing is, but it will break. That's why, from the
  beginning, it's better not to need anything.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Years, Two, Forever

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• Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Moving, Issues

  Craig Kielburger (2010). “Free The Children”, p.57, Greystone Books

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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• In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology……The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature.

  Richard Louv

  Years, Discipline, People

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• We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

  Alice Paul

  America, Democracy, Vote

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• A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

  Barry Hughart

  Wise, Men, Years

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.73, Spectra

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• It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  Hannes Alfven

  Years, Infinite Time, Four

  "The World & I", Volume 3, Issues 5-6, May 1988.

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• Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Years, People, Five

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Vices, Vice Versa

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.41, Algonquin Books

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• Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Book, Years

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Insecurity, Age, Firsts

  "From Optimism to Hope". Book by Jonathan Sacks, 2004.

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• Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Years, Careers

  FaceBook post by Lance Armstrong from May 19, 2011

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• We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Years, Vision, Doubt

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• What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Home, Writing, Men

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• Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Blessed, Men, Years

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• Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

  Suzanne Somers

  People, Perfect, Age

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.

  William J. Clinton

  Marijuana, Years, Cannabis

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• I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Artist, Parent

  Alan Bennett (2016). “A Private Function”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Past, Years, Judging

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

  Rob Lowe

  School, Kids, Long

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Life, Years, Too Short

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