Eighteen Quotes - Page 3

• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

  Winsor McCay

  Moon, Way, Slides

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• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Years, Play

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• The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Children, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.287, Wildside Press LLC

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• Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

  Charlie Munger

  Over You, Cards, Credit

  "4 Steps To Getting Rich From Warren Buffett's Right-Hand Man" by Chuck Saletta, www.businessinsider.com. May 31, 2013.

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• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Love Life, Pieces, World

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Long, Twenties

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• On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Average, Physicians, Stories

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Cutting, Doctors, Average

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

  Brian Leetch

  Hurt, Years, Knee Injuries

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• You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

  Philipp Meyer

  Growing Up, Able, Hell

  Philipp Meyer (2009). “American Rust”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

  Thomas Harris

  Breathing, Half, Faust

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• Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent

  P. C. Cast

  Worry, Way, Prudent

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• I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

  Kinky Friedman

  Drinking, Iraq, Age

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• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Behinds

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• There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Father, Years, Two

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.8, Crown Archetype

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• After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

  Michael J. Fox

  Years, Eighteen Years Old, Checks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Giving, Months

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• In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

  Ashley Greene

  Party, Years, Focus

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• Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

  Jessica Lange

  Twelve, France, Rage

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• It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Years, Months

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• It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

  Elon Musk

  America, Energy, Three

  "Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will". Interview with Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

  Janet Evanovich

  Toxic Waste, Challenges, Way

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• I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Age

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