Twenty Quotes

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If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or… — John Bingham
Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty… — Douglas Adams
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. — Jane Austen
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked… — Khaled Hosseini
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see… — Annie Ernaux
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing… — Walker Percy
Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say, And cast your words away upon the waves. Sail them home with acquiesce… — Noel Gallagher
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and… — Stephen King
TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames… — Rudyard Kipling
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid — Bob Dylan
And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d'… — Bret Easton Ellis
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It… — William Shakespeare
The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay-more than… — Richelle Mead
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he… — Vladimir Nabokov
Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT. — Richard Kadrey
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring… — Douglas Adams
I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. — Karen Marie Moning
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked… — C.S. Lewis
I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty… — George MacDonald
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the… — Dorothy Allison

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