Quotes with 17-year-olds

Quotes 81 till 100 of 392.

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Barry Cornwall Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Bing Gordon Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Gerald R. Ford Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • William James Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ogden Nash Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Carl Lewis Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Billy Graham Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Brett Dier Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.
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  • Richard Cecil Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Bonnie Somerville Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Bernie Sanders For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anthony Weiner For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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