Quotes with fifty-five

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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Francesco Petrarca Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Victor Hugo Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Kofi Annan Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bill Medley George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Billy Graham Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
    Source: "The Genesis Principle of Leadership: Claiming and Cultivating Your Created Capacity" (2008)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Christopher Morley God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Bobby Jones Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Virginia Graham Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
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  • Ben Simmons Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don't get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don't have time. Not that anything's wrong with the fantasy, but I just don't have time for it with my lifestyle.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bjork He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers
    They form a pattern yet to be matched
    On the surface simplicity
    But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry
    Source: Songs Pagan Poetry, from Vespertine (2001)
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Abu Bakr He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    Source: The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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