Nineteen Quotes
113 quotes by 101 authors
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow…
— Al McGuire
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What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty,…
— J C Ryle
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Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.
— Grantland Rice
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If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
— Richard Henry Lee
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
— Francois Mauriac
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What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
— Bertrand Russell
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Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.
— George Harrison
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's…
— Lance Armstrong
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Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
— Julie Andrews
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At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian…
— Jo Nesbo
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There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
— Bessie Smith
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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen…
— Nikola Tesla
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What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do…
— Wilma Rudolph
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He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were…
— Glenn Hoddle
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In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a…
— Pia Zadora
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Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered…
— Tom Lehrer
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