Fourteen Quotes - Page 2

• Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Boys, Men

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Self, Years

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• There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Fall, Heart

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• There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Years, Mecca, Prophet

  "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.

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• You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Hard Work, Independent, Years

  "Scarlett Johansson Is the Sexiest Woman Alive, 2006" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.

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• In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts.

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Past, Israel

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• I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Independent, Science, Views

  "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".

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• I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

  Ann Beattie

  Summer, Song, Boys

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• People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.

  Ellen Potter

  Passion, Adventure, Should Have

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.131, Macmillan

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• By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Support

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Memories, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.436, Wordsworth Editions

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• You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?

  Louise Rennison

  Hair, Color, Years

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Seven, Stills

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.904, Scholastic Inc.

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• After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

  Annie Oakley

  Country, Eye, Land

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• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

  D. A. Carson

  Liars, Hate, Wrath

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• There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

  Samuel Shem

  Strong, Numbers, Body

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• At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Reality, Age

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.7, Heinemann

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• At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

  Hemant Mehta

  Asking Questions, Atheism, Age

  Hemant Mehta (2009). “I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist's Eyes”, p.40, WaterBrook

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• I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

  Norman Wisdom

  Army, Boys, Lucky

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

  Menachem Begin

  Fighting, Government, Israel

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• One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

  Chuck Barris

  Pie, Delicious, Pieces

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• A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

  Irving Kristol

  Girl, Sex, Years

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• I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

  Melissa Bank

  Teacher, Boys, Rejection

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.88, Penguin

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• It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

  Lisa Alther

  Years, Rejection, Firsts

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