Fifty Quotes - Page 21

• All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

  C. S. Lewis

  Uplifting, Angel, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

  Gordon Brown

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

  John Lydon

  Love, Two, Sound

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• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Government, Worthwhile Things, Years

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

  Ken Robinson

  Fitness, Workout, Jobs

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• In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.

  Robert Muller

  Eugenics, Government, Views

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• We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

  Paul Washer

  Sheep, Years, People

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• Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the choice will depend on our collective world behavior over the next fifty years. Whichever option is chosen, it will not be the end of history, but in a real sense its beginning. The human social world is still very young in cosmological time. In 2050 or 2100, when we look back at capitalist civilization, what will we think?

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Hyphens, Propositions

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• What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.

  David Jeremiah

  Book, Home, Thinking

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• Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Horse, Giving Up, Years

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• For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American character...that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them.

  Michael Parenti

  Character, Government, Years

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• Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Years, Trying

  John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ocean, Men, Years

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.462, Manonmani Publishers

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• She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.

  Damon Runyon

  Art, Order, Feet

  Damon Runyon (1981). “The bloodhounds of Broadway and other stories”, William Morrow & Company

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• Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Feet, Parent

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• They came up with a table of pictures of all the shapes of UFOs that have ever been recorded -about fifty ...The study of UFOs may reveal some new forms of energy to us,or at least bring us closer to a solution.

  Vasily Alekseyev

  Energy, Shapes, May

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• Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Baby, Dad

  Song: Don't Blink, Album: Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, 2007

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• Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

  Natalie Portman

  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

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• I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

  Ava Gardner

  Years, White, Twelve

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• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  Maggie Smith

  Believe, Past, Prime

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• A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

  Marlon Brando

  Hurt, Sensitive Person, Eight

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• Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

  Eli Wallach

  Dollars, Cold, Courses

  "Batman: The Duo Defy". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

  Shelby Foote

  Memories, War, Loss

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

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• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

  Iggy Pop

  Dark, Two, Tunes

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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