Twenty Years Quotes
355 quotes by 310 authors
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
— Chinua Achebe
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
— Jacques Barzun
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went…
— Erma Bombeck
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
— Lenny Bruce
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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
— John Jay Chapman
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Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you…
— Vincent Matthews
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It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years…
— Paulo Coelho
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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
— Eddie Cantor
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder…
— Colman McCarthy
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.
— Gypsy Rose Lee
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You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had…
— George Carlin
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
— Oscar Wilde
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human…
— Irving Langmuir
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Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably…
— Alister MacKenzie
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But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness…
— Jonathan Haidt
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'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can…
— Robert Ruark
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From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I…
— Shawn Phillips
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I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved…
— George H. Miley
Who Wrote These Twenty Years Quotes
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