Seventy Quotes

260 Seventy quotes by 222 unique authors

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old… — C.S. Lewis
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who… — John Green
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions… — Michael Chabon
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. — Junot Diaz
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman
Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by… — D. J. MacHale
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead. — Graham Greene
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens… — Nick Hornby
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. — Dorothy Parker
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty… — Scott Lynch
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.… — Alice Sebold
I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them… — Suzanne Collins
Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not… — Nicole Krauss
The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be… — Ray Bradbury
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is… — Mary Pipher
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish… — Soren Kierkegaard
What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous. — Obert Skye
I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said,… — James Patterson
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the… — Stephen King
Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. — Suzanne Collins
Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin! — Suzanne Collins
I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might… — Naomi Shihab Nye

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