Best Twenties Quotes
1626 Twenties quotes by 1251 unique authors
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I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did…
— George Clooney
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and…
— Harlan Coben
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The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
— Ismail Serageldin
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain…
— Aberjhani
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something…
— Aberjhani
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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.
— Steve Kangas
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Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you…
— Unknown Author
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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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 was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years…
— Paulo Coelho
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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
— Eddie Cantor
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When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
— Unknown Author
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and…
— Elie Wiesel
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in…
— Andy Grove
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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle…
— Malcolm X
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder…
— Colman McCarthy
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something…
— Unknown Author
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to…
— Unknown Author
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we…
— William J. Clinton
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It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good…
— Henry Rollins
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never…
— Ezra Pound
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