Twenty Quotes

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You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life… — S.C. Stephens
When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of… — Gwyneth Paltrow
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months,… — Ray Bradbury
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths… — Richard Dawkins
The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than… — Kenneth C. Davis
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. — Raoul Vaneigem
I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep… — Julian Casablancas
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological… — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back. — Harper Lee
This book is dedicated to Sweet Loretta Modern. It's also dedicated to all the Jerichoholics who have stood behind me through all of the trials… — Chris Jericho
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only… — Paula McLain
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute… — James Woods
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man… — Andrew Breitbart
Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. — Murray Walker
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to… — Manil Suri
I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that… — Mother Teresa
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is… — B.F. Skinner
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time,… — Robert Frost
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed… — John Kendrick Bangs
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit… — Diablo Cody

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