Fifty Quotes · Page 27

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you…

— Kingsley Amis

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but…

— Bob Geldof

I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by…

— Stephen Bayley

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them…

— Anonymous

Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me…

— Tricia Goyer

I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw…

— Bella Heathcote

“Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me.…

— Chila Woychik

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness…

— Ian Mcewan

If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such…

— Eric Drooker

There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence…

— Hassan Blasim

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty…

— Henry Ford

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close…

— David Blankenhorn

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools,…

— Thomas Carlyle

What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…

— John Updike

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on…

— Sam Harris

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do…

— Uwe Boll

Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current…

— Anna Quindlen

And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block,…

— Janet Fitch

If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for…

— Margot Wallstrom

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off…

— George Muller

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier…

— Jayni Chase

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept…

— Charles Lindbergh

Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's…

— Thomas M. Disch

If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday;…

— Tony Robbins

What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your…

— Arno Hintjens

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were…

— Gloria Steinem

Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . .…

— John Cheever

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was…

— David Hockney

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was…

— Noam Chomsky

“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now…

— Corrie Ten Boom

Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the…

— Ed McClanahan

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a…

— Jon Bon Jovi

It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the…

— Michelle Monaghan

To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands…

— Mark McGwire

The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen…

— D. A. Carson

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at…

— Irvin D. Yalom