Quotes with years-old

Quotes 661 till 680 of 1807.

  • Edgar W. Howe If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Alan Cohen If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Malcolm X If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Jessamyn West If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Beth Gutcheon If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
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  • B. F. Skinner If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Noam Chomsky If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bryan Callen If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Burt Rutan In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
    The First World War (1963) p. 165
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Ann Druyan In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bee Wilson In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Erica Jong In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bryan Robson In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Camillo di Cavour In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
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