Eighty Quotes

247 quotes by 223 authors

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character… — Bernard Baruch
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the… — Norman Borlaug
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron
Eighty percent of success is showing up. — Woody Allen
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling… — Henry Mitchell
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. — Red Smith
In a dream you are never eighty. — Anne Sexton
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. — Henry Ford
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the… — Abraham Lincoln
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? — Peter De Vries
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. — Brian Tracy
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the… — Sri Chinmoy
And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major… — Rajneesh
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his… — Arthur Miller
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad. — Tommy Lasorda
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. — Jake Simmons, Jr.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even… — Samuel Ullman

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