Quotes with forty-seven

Quotes 101 till 120 of 122.

  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Betty Friedan We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bill Rancic Well, the 'Giuliana & Bill' show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power, but I will say, in the seven seasons we've done the show, we've never used our executive producer powers to cut something out.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Buford What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Caspar David Friedrich What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Leon Blum When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Armand Hammer When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
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  • Augusten Burroughs When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Barry Ritholtz You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ogden Nash Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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