Best Forty Years Quotes
162 Forty Years quotes by 149 unique authors
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
— Charles Darwin
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Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
— Allan Gurganus
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Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players…
— Luis Tiant
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A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous!…
— Cannonball Adderley
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The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table,…
— Unknown Author
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an…
— Stefan Zweig
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After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in…
— Benjamin Bloom
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I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors,…
— Tony Hoare
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Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty…
— Frank Drake
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One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and…
— James Dobson
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The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
— Fred Saberhagen
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The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and…
— Fred Saberhagen
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I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such…
— Leonard Maltin
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Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business…
— Charlie Munger
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I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's…
— Gustav Nossal
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In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an…
— Isabel Colegate
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
— Richard Brautigan
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We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.
— Hideo Kojima
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It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five…
— Abram Hoffer
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The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much,…
— Jack Handey
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Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity…
— Robert Walpole
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Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would…
— Richard Hammond
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For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of…
— Ellen G. White
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