Twenty Quotes

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The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest… — E. O. Wilson
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they… — Laurell K. Hamilton
As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us… — Ally Carter
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting… — Ann Brashares
Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Twenty-six,” you said. “One for each day we’ve been together, Min.”Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. “And I hope that someday I’ll do another something stupid… — Daniel Handler
Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional… — Rick Riordan
There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things… — Neil Gaiman
I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a… — Larry McMurtry
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want… — Meg Cabot
Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They,… — Suzanne Collins
And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee.… — Suzanne Collins
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read… — Richard Peck
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a… — Bill Bryson
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book.… — John Green
Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them… — Voltaire
Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting… — Joss Whedon
They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They… — Guillaume Musso
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had… — Jane Austen
Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you… — Tessa Dare
Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um," I said, barely… — Meg Cabot
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles… — Leo Tolstoy
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know… — Chuck Klosterman

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