Quotes with fifty-fourth

Quotes 81 till 100 of 104.

  • Barbara Walters The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • André Malraux There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bill Klem There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Barry Malzberg There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
    Source: Beyond Apollo Ch. 16
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  • Carlisle Floyd There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Billy Sunday Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
    Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bernard Ebbers We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Beyonce Knowles We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ivan Stang We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
    Ivan Stang
     
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  • Adolf Galland We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carolyn See What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bonnie McKee When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.
    Bonnie McKee
     
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  • Bill Condon When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Henry Miller You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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