Fourth Quotes

537 Fourth quotes by 459 unique authors

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with… — Douglas Adams
I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever… — Fred Rogers
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… — Rebecca Solnit
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself… — Epictetus
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the… — Paul Auster
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. — J D Salinger
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of… — Kurt Vonnegut
There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads… — Neil Gaiman
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. — Sylvia Plath
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the… — Robert Jordan
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock… — Walt Whitman
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil,… — Albert Schweitzer
What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something?… — Kristin Cashore
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth… — Christopher Moore
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given… — Milan Kundera
Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything… — Jeff Kinney
Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask… — Swami Satchidananda
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish… — Margaret Atwood
When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one… — Jodi Picoult
Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one,… — Janet Fitch
She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle… — Rachel Caine
On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes. “I think these promotional campaigns have really… — Sarah Rees Brennan
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from… — Denis Johnson

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