Fifty Quotes - Page 19

• I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Years, Iraq, Giving

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  Wendell Willkie

  Science, Years, Analysis

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Maturity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

  Ruby Dee

  Anniversary, Fall, Knowing

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• When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Boys, Feet

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• The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

  Juan Carlos Copes

  Dance, Men, Two

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• The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Funny, Life, Good Morning

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• In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Winning, Order, Victory

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• Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of God, called it the Rosary. The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses" that is to say that every time people say the Rosary devoutly they place a crown of one hundred and fifty-three red roses and sixteen white roses upon the heads of Jesus and Mary. Being heavenly flowers these roses will never fade or lose their exquisite beauty.

  Louis de Montfort

  Jesus, Flower, Blessed

  St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.27, TAN Books

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• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  George Montgomery

  Drinking, Years, Alcohol

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• What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.

  John Updike

  Sports, Lying, Golf

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• There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

  William Holden

  Trying, Twenties, Aging

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mean, Rocks, Opposites

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• He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sarcastic, Men, Years

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• It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Religious, Book

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• A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

  Johnny Carson

  Fun, Islands, Turkeys

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• I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

  Ray Floyd

  Fun, Female, Prejudice

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• America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

  Bernard Baruch

  Believe, Maturity, Years

  Bernard Baruch's Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York, May 23, 1944.

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• A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

  William Feather

  Girl, Men, Twenties

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

  Raquel Welch

  Change, Years, Mind

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• I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Past, Years

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• I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

  Bruce Sterling

  Technology, Thinking, Years

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• When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Funny, Dog, Sleep

  Albert Payson Terhune (2015). “Further Adventures of Lad”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

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