Fifty Quotes - Page 37

• I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

  Horatio Nelson

  Love, Dark, Feelings

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• To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Peace, Children

  "The Byrd That Roared" by Matteen Mokalla, www.motherjones.com. March 2004.

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• I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Thinking, Cells

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

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• If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.

  Robert Dickson Crane

  Wisdom, Unique, Past

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• Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Class, Our World

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.

  Charles Diggs

  Country, Thinking, Lynching

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• The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Fall, Fighting

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• To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Years, Envy, Atheism

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• The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  College, Years, Nba

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• Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

  Clement Attlee

  Children, Political, Genius

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• I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, Years, Eight

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previously available only to a few individuals, and how this achievement has given rise to equally unprecedented inequalities. Unique in its focus and scope, exceptional knowledge and coherence, and careful argumentation, The Great Escape is highly illuminating and a delight to read.

  Thomas Pogge

  Book, Unique, Years

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• Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

  Dakota Johnson

  People, Shade, Grey

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• For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

  A. A. Milne

  Dream, People, Pounds

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• A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Chapter XV, 1688.

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• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

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• Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Husband, Wife

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• School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Education, School, Order

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eight, Government, Listening

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.637, Lulu.com

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• He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

  William Cowper

  Views, Purpose, World

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1837). “Life and Works, by Robert Southey. - London, Baldwin and Crodok 1835-1837”, p.112

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• At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Twenties, Thirty

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• I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Years, Two

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• Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Age, Thirty

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

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• Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

  Ben Hecht

  Men, Differences, Way

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• It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Years, People

  Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.311

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