Seventy Quotes

260 Seventy quotes by 222 unique authors

Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that… — Suzanne Collins
When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me… — Melina Marchetta
All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo… — Rick Riordan
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the… — Neil Gaiman
In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see… — Victor Hugo
You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. — Jonathan Franzen
Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was… — J.A. Konrath
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't.… — Nick Hornby
Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together… — Sarah Addison Allen
Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of… — Mordecai Richler
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people… — Douglas Coupland
Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy — Josh Lanyon
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries… — Robert A. Heinlein
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The… — Unknown Author
I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking… — Suzanne Collins
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest… — Lev Grossman
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. — Leonora Carrington
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. — Italo Calvino
Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive… — Kevin Hearne
The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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