Fifty Quotes
803 quotes by 671 authors
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If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet…
— Kristen Stewart
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor…
— Ben Stein
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
— Stendhal
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have…
— Billy Sunday
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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…
— James Surowiecki
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster…
— James Surowiecki
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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would…
— Lewis Thomas
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The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty…
— Ted Turner
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does…
— Bill Vaughan
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
— Gore Vidal
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to…
— H.G. Wells
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As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord…
— David Wilkerson
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not…
— Thom Yorke
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context…
— Carl Sagan
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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out…
— Mark Twain
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals…
— George Bernard Shaw
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