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Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might… — Florence King
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am… — Florence King
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a… — Dave Barry
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks… — Voltaire
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was… — Leigh Hunt
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time. — Paulo Coelho
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I… — Frank Miller
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at… — Nhat Hanh
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights… — Sam Harris
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a… — Christopher Morley
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. — Markus Zusak
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all… — Chuck Palahniuk
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if… — Louisa May Alcott
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss… — Erich Maria Remarque
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure… — Voltaire
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly… — Jane Austen
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years… — Will Rogers
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… — Arundhati Roy
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity — David Foster Wallace
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel… — Ian Mcewan
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use.… — Donald Miller

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