Forty Quotes - Page 35

• It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

  Jan Struther

  Spiritual, Years, Confusion

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Real, Age, Desire

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• I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Running, Struggle

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• Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

  David Koepp

  Science, Years, Vastness

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 08, 2012

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• Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

  Robert Cochrane

  Work, Salary, World

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• When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

  Lenore Coffee

  Girl, Falling In Love, Men

  Lenore Coffee (1973). “Storyline; recollections of a Hollywood screenwriter”, Burns & Oates

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• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand - i.e., the metaphysics of quantum theory - is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Acceptance, Successful

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Dirty, Golf

  "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

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• Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

  Thomas Boswell

  Team, Golf, Hockey

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• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Garden, Years

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

  Andre Gide

  New Year, Holiday, Years

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• We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

  Al Attles

  Sports, Defense, Four

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• Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

  Colman McCarthy

  Golf, St Benedict, Brethren

  Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”

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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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• I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

  Mother Teresa

  Responsibility, Two, Saint

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• It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Real, Emotional

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• I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Twenties, Legs, Nine

  Nadine Gordimer (1975). “Selected stories”, Viking Pr

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• A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Girl, World, Noise

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.294

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sarcastic, Memorable, Hanging On

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• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Thinking, Way

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.654, e-artnow

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• Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Sixteen, Christ

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.266, Thomas Nelson Inc

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