Seventies Quotes - Page 17

• I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  Children, Giving Up, Believe

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• Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Friedrich Engels

  Used, Marxist, Late

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratskiĭ (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895”

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• I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

  Winston Churchill

  Eight, Years, Arrogance

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• The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

  Larry Niven

  War, Years, Cold

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan

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• I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Pride, Years

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• It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Age, World

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• Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

  Peter Benchley

  Dark, Moon, Careers

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• I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Clever, Stupid

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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• We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Lying, Men, Masturbation

  "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

  Boz Scaggs

  Artist, Retrospect, Strings

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• No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

  John Macquarrie

  Order, Decision, Anxiety

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• Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Years, Socialism, Contests

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• With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

  Tim Vine

  Confidence, Silly, Laughing

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• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Men, Order

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• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  Wendell Phillips

  Given, Statesmen, Presidency

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.309

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• I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Gay, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Brother, Husband, Government

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• I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Thinking, Literature

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• For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, Age, Three

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• One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Years, Age, Battle

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.

  Johann Hari

  Powerful, Mushrooms, Clouds

  "And the solution to the Iran crisis is". JohannHari.com, January 22, 2006.

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• Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Age, Oracles, Utterance

  "Constantine P. Cavafy: Collected Poems". Book by Constantine Cavafy, p. 87, 2009.

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• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Lying, Reality, Justice

  "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

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• Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Book, America, Library

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• People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

  Ferran Adria

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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