Seven Quotes - Page 27

• On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Party, People, Bed

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• I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

  Wally Wood

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Women, People, Lovely

  "Early Success" (1937)

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• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

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• She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Lovely, Twenties

  "Early Success" (1937)

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• You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).

  John Flavel

  Christian, Kings, Clouds

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.83, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Jobs, War

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• The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

  Garrison Keillor

  Color, Numbers, Green

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• Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.

  Al Gore

  Rain, Men, Air

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• I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate. They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life.... I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry.

  Jim Bakker

  Stress, Years, Scary

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• If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

  Anita Loos

  Change, Sex, Kissing

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

  Peter Andrews

  Golf, Blood, Squinting

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• Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

  Richard Allington

  Reading, Phrases, Levels

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.

  Ransom Riggs

  Monday, Book, Years

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.18, Quirk Books

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• In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

  George Sweeting

  Jesus, Responsibility, Men

  George Sweeting (2012). “How to Begin the Christian Life: Following Jesus as a New Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

  T. J. Stiles

  Book, Years, Ideas

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

  Neil Pasricha

  Food, Long, Three

  Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.68, Penguin

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• Squeeze 7cc's so I could see the seven seas,
  And CC all my friends so they could see what I was seeing...
  But what they saw was a despicable human being;
  So, I guess they just wasn't seeing what I was seeing.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Sea, Hip Hop

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• You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

  Rakim

  Rap, Ghetto, Wind

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• Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Fall, Eight

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• When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

  Joan Severance

  Art, Winning, Reality

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

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• I actually think I left 10 to 20 pounds on the stage, because it went up pretty easily. Seven hundred has been an accomplishment I've wanted for a while, but the last few months, as my training has gotten better, I knew this was going to be a reality. That's when I knew I was getting close and this could really happen.

  Pepe Smith

  Thinking, Reality, Accomplishment

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• A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.

  Marie Daulne

  Music, Men, Color

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• No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Men, Political, Politics

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