Twenties Quotes - Page 27

• The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Banking, Ratios

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• I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Years, Two

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• Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Hurt, Pleasant

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.139, PublicAffairs

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• At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

  Milton Berle

  Women, Years, Two

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• Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

  George Clooney

  Cute, Hurt, Thinking

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• Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

  Howard Rheingold

  Knowing, Too Much Information, Ingredients

  Howard Rheingold, Anthony Weeks (2012). “Net Smart: How to Thrive Online”, p.2, MIT Press

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• America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!

  Richard Jeni

  America, Aliens, Illegal

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• In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.  this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.  My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.  Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Silly, Eye, Long Ago

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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• Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

  James Altucher

  Trying, Lines, Matter

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• He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

  Chanakya

  Practice, Virtue, Invincible

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• Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Games, Design

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.18, Penguin

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• It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Together, Needs

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• I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

  Amanda Smith

  Thinking, People, Grace

  Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

  Helen Simonson

  Passion, Views, Two

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• I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Years, Vegetarian, Cannibal

  "Who I Am, and What I Think". Interview in Frank Harris's periodical "The Candid Friend" (May 1901), later quoted in George Bernard Shaw "Sixteen Self Sketches" (p. 53), 1949, and in Desmond King-Hele, "Shelley: His Thought and Work" (p. 42), 1984.

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• One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Thinking, Intellectual, Would Be

  Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.135, PublicAffairs

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• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Iraq, Soldier

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• I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

  Thayer David

  Thinking, Thirty

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• It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Children, Four, Impossible

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

  Paul Newman

  Salad Dressing, Who I Am, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.

  Colleen Hoover

  Spiritual, Men, Years

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular blessings descended upon his labors. In two years, his ten preaching places in Anglesea were increased to twenty, and six hundred converts were added to the church under his immediate care.

  Christmas Evans

  Blessing, Men, Years

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• I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm twenty - that's how you know you're really hot. I'd rather have a long respected career.

  Kellie Martin

  Careers, Long, Hot

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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