Quotes with seventy-seven

Quotes 61 till 80 of 93.

  • W. Edwards Deming The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
    W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician and author (1900 - 1993)
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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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  • Bill Buford The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Doris Lessing The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Helen Hayes The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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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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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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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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  • 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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  • Thomas L. Masson There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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