Quotes and Sayings About Twenties
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
-- A. E. Housman -
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.
-- Adam BraunSource : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
-- Adam Lambert -
We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.
-- Adam RexSource : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
-- Adoniram Judson -
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...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
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Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
-- Alexander Gordon SmithSource : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
-- Alexander PopeSource : Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381
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The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
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For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.
-- Ali LiebegottSource : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
-- Alice Hoffman -
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
-- Alice JamesSource : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
-- Alice JamesSource : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
-- Allen TateSource : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan
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I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.
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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 are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.
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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
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I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.
-- Amy Plum -
I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.
-- Amy Poehler -
Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.
-- Anagarika DharmapalaSource : Anagarika Dharmapala (1965). “Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala”
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
-- Andre Malraux -
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value
-- Andy Stanton