“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.” YearsFirstsHumansStillsTwoFactsDiesBornAirCreaturesEternalEnglandTwentiesBritainIrelandSeventiesForeignersBeing IrishIreland And The Irish Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.” WorldYearsChildrenProblemEarthBornEconomyAirWasteResourcesBuiltAspectThirdsIndiaTwentiesWestAverageToxicFourthConsumptionConsumerismDeliberateOverconsumptionOverpopulationAmerican EconomyToxic Waste Author:Richard J. Foster
“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.” IfsFirstsUnitedMillionsAirFeetFirst TimeTwentiesPopulationShouldersKingdomsSixtyUnited Kingdom Author:Eddie Mair
“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).” KnowsSeemsReadingDoorsAirReaderTwentiesResponseOpeningSensationsRebelFlashAttackingBlindedHordeSwarmsReading PoetryNo Response Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932 Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932
“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.” IfsThinkingMenWorldMayMadeRealBodyWealthPleasurePoorClassMillionsRichAirCrimePureTwentiesHorribleCommitMiserableWealthyOne ManLowestReal FriendsImmoralFiltersSpendthrift Author:Ellen Buckingham Mathews
“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.” IfsGivingYearsWellsLittlesMadeCareAgeYoungSidesToo MuchAirFineFitClothesReflectionTwentiesDressesFellowsTake CareFiftyFortyExcessAwkwardStinkFifty Year Olds Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!” KnowsGuyForceStudyAirGrewGayGrew UpTwentiesDancingSouthGearsAir ForceGay Guy Author:Morgan Freeman
“I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.” LittlesFeelingsKidsWantedLostStrongCitiesGoneAirSeaLandIdentityTwentiesGreenLos AngelesVery StrongLittle KidSlidesCementStrong Feeling Author:Robert Redford
“Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?” “What are you doing twenty feet in the air?” “Looking for a book.” “Would you mind very much returning to the earth?” “What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?” “I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.” “You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.” ThinkingTryingMindBelieveMeanStillsBookUseEarthFoundI BelieveAbilityEmotionAirFeetConditionsHusbandLowsTwentiesCalmExtremesEnjoyedClimbingSpectrumExtremityRafters Author:Sarah MacLean
“Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.” ThinkingYearsBodyHappensRememberLife IsEasyWaterSleepImagineImpossibleAirEatingLosingTwentiesHeatAppetiteAir And WaterOffline Book:It Chooses You Source: It Chooses You
“Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.” PeopleWholeWaterRichAirCrazyCoupleTwentiesTownsTiredExperimentsBad PeopleUnluckyCrazy People Author:James Patterson