Best Twenties Wisdom
1626 Twenties quotes by 1251 unique authors
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Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all…
— Bill Bryson
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
— James Madison
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in,…
— Bette Midler
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She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life…
— James A. Baldwin
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times…
— Stephen King
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With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.
— Thayer David
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of…
— Michelle Alexander
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
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You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that…
— Og Mandino
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The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive…
— Greg Nickels
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There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Don’t think in terms…
— Richard Dennis
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There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names…
— Max Shulman
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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about…
— Betty Buckley
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Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties!
— Emilia Clarke
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A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.
— Rich Hall
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Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot…
— Megan Fox
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The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most…
— Jared Leto
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
— Katharine Hepburn
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When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a…
— Matt Dillon
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I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a…
— Roger Maris
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