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162 Forty Years quotes by 149 unique authors
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I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity…
— Herbie Hancock
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised…
— Joyce Meyer
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again…
— Errol Morris
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For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
— Mike Pence
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There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
— Buddy Rich
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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
— Charlie Sheen
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Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
— Leigh Steinberg
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
— Stendhal
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Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they…
— Dorothy Thompson
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Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was…
— Mac Thornberry
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host…
— Gore Vidal
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Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
— Tony Visconti
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Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways…
— Jacki Weaver
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Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong.…
— Jonathan Winters
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I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years…
— Mark Twain
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I…
— Jan Karon
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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