Sixty Quotes - Page 10

• What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

  Keith Richards

  Retirement, Jobs, Age

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• A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  Marie Stopes

  Beautiful, Space, Soul

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• You know, Longmire and all those other great (whodunit) series, I would love to one of those. We just haven't found the right one...I really am, I think, an old soul, I think, in the acting world. I'm very comfortable in the fifty, sixties era. I love it.

  Drew Waters

  Thinking, Soul, Acting

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I love taking on challenges. I think one of the funnest things in acting is creating a character - wrapping yourself around a character and bringing him to life. I love a lot of different genres. I'm not a big horror guy by any means but I love the challenge. But the fifties and sixties is where I feel the most comfortable.

  Drew Waters

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Years

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• Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished.
  ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Florida, Rights, Expression

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• Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics”, p.1249, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Twenties, World

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• Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentine, Men, Blue

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• I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Knows

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• Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

  Robert Orben

  Travel, Home, Past

  Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub

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• Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

  Rex Stout

  People, Joy, Buttons

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Father Hunt”, p.103, Bantam

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• My parents were sixty years married.

  Roddy Doyle

  Years, Parent, Married

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• I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Sea, Land

  Source: www.commdiginews.com

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• You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.

  S.C. Stephens

  School, Sixty Minutes, Things In Life

  S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Prayer, Inspiration

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• ... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fear, Epidemics, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.407, Open Road Media

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Reading, Years

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.321, University of Virginia Press

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• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

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• At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Aging, Vistas

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• When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

  Bob Dylan

  Growing Up, Twenties, Way

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Work, Animal

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• So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

  George Wald

  Twelve, Defense, Gross

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• Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Games

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