Best five & fifty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.”

Needs Feels Might Five Pages Hundred Twenties Fifty Get Over Rewriting

Author:Joan Didion

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.”

World Years Believe Wells I Can Light Earth Force Simple Space Five Position Hundred Method Wide Fifty Intrigue Assassination Insufficient Specialty Devious Light Years

Book:The Stars, Like Dust

Source: The Stars, Like Dust

“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?”

People Ifs Thinking Way Needs Doe Shows Actors Stars Five Four Cost Normal Eating Hundred Dollars Dinner Restaurants Expensive Fifty Hotel Relative Tickets Seventies Broadway Spectators

Author:Ferran Adria

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.”

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.”

Ifs Men Work Five Alive Fool Fifty

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.”

People Ifs World Years Today Opportunity Belief Pleasure Five Missing This World Years Ago Majority Myth Rage Five Years Fifty Destined Rest Of Your Life Great Opportunity

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.”

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?”

Men Giving Life Is Education Five Teacher Development Thousand Hundred India Credit Fifty Great Men Salary Rupees

Author:Narendra Modi

“Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”

Five Alive Hundred Fifty Seventeen Drones Hives

Book:Songs in Many Keys

Source: Songs in Many Keys

“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Years Has Beens Young Girl Felt Wealth Freedom Marriage Poverty Five Giving Up Married Twenties Five Years Fifty Dolls Twenty One Housekeepers

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”

Men Years Two Whole Body Age Death Water Five Four Months Six Substance Colour Fifty Stomach Four Years Six Months Fluid Beans Troublesome Vomiting Spleen

Author:Giovanni Battista Morgagni

“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.”

Two Earth Remember Courses Heaven Millions Sun Five Theory Thousand Hundred Shadow Method Casts Mathematical Thirty Fifty Pace Inclination Employing

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?”

Ifs World Should Nature Five Alive Twenties Bitter Fifty Twenty Five

Author:Alfred the Great

“I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said "The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden." So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, "If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life."”

Ifs Thinking Said Secret Five Saws Deserve Letters Twenties Fifty Bargains Institute Twenty Five Advertisements Secret Life

Author:Peter Cook

“I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.”

Ends Happens Father Differences Millions Five Fame Performances Dollars Fifty The End Of The Day Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

“Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.”

People Stories Five Generations Hundred Fifty

Author:Rudy Wiebe

“Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.”

Five Fifty Cents Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Adjectives And Adverbs

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."”

Years Heart Doe Hands Eye Father Five Years Ago Five Years Fifty Shelves

Author:Martin Niemoller

“Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.”

Thinking I Can Ideas Bigs Universe Black Five Holes Fifty Satisfying Spheres Bangs Crystals Black Hole Arcadia Quarks Quasars

Book:Tom Stoppard: Plays

Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays

“He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.”

People Ifs Giving Would Be Goal Five Team Ten Balls Technique Clever Fifty Score Magnificent Yards Outstanding Very Clever Good Team Scholes Paul Scholes

Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson

“There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.”

Should Age Boys Doubt Five Dog Healthy Normal No Doubt Fifty Forty

Author:Robert Benchley

“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.”

Ifs Wells Doe Play Use Artist Realizing Lines Careers Five Army Twenties Salvation Aging Jazz Average Fifty Twenty Five Salvation Army

Author:Oscar Peterson

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