Quotes with forty-seven

Quotes 81 till 100 of 122.

  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Buffalo Bill Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Sir William Osler Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Jean Kerr The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Og Mandino The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Graham The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Allen Tate There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bob Dylan There's seven people dead
    On a South Dakota farm
    Somewhere in the distance
    There's seven new people born
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Gore Vidal Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Abbe Pierre Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Foster Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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