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“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?”

Ifs Whole Might Would Be Life Is Dies Bits Born Saws Streets Strange Balance Promise Standing Twenties Fifty Afternoon Advise Convenient Twenty One Standing There Helen Main Street Promise Me

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”

Ifs Years Young Reading Four Minutes Regret Six Twenties Thirty Worn I Regret Bikinis

Author:Nora Ephron

“Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, I’m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.”

Ifs Men Way Lost Speak Waiting Lord Laughing Feet Twenties Tired Eight Why Not Why Now Tired Of Waiting Short Laugh

Author:Sarah MacLean

“He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.”

Ifs Used Five Cost Twenties Spokes Bucks Wallets Telegrams

Book:Hot Target

Source: Hot Target

“You have twenty-four hours, horseguy, to kill your betrayer any way you see fit and to take your revenge. Make them count. Oh, and know that you can’t let daylight touch you. If you do…Well, you don’t want to die without your soul. It’s highly unpleasant. Sometime in the next few days, a man named Acheron Parthenopaeus will find you and teach you everything you need to know about being a Dark-Hunter. If you’re smart, you’ll listen to him. Welcome to the madness.” – Artemis”

Ifs Knows Men Way Want Needs Wells Soul Dies Next Hours Dark Teach Four Fit Smart Madness Twenties Revenge Welcome Your Soul Hunters Daylight Wanting To Die Artemis Dark Hunter

Book:Retribution

Source: Retribution

“If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—”

Ifs Trying Said Might Left Bits Rooms Behinds Twenties Pace Suggestions Council Kicking Infernal Devices

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.”

Ifs Littles Doe Different Sometimes Character Stories Courses Attitude Wonder Opinion Novel Habit Tragedy Twenties Stuck Thirty Decoration Eccentricity New Habits

Author:Julian Barnes

“He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say!”

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Author:Cecelia Ahern

“What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.”

Ifs Years Two Matter Facts Twenties

Author:Albert Camus

“My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.”

“A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. “Jasper does that if—” Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. “If he thinks you’re dead or too weak to fight.” “Jasper?” “I call him that, but I’ve also named the stones in my cell.” “I only counted mine,” Arista said. “Two hundred and thirty-four,” Degan replied instantly. “I have two hundred and twenty-eight.” “Did you count the cracked ones as two?” “No.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Said Two Moments Fighting Bits Voice Four Mines Hundred Stones Weak Horse Twenties Eight Cells Thirty Spokes Rats Shocked Cracked Hacked

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“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 wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”

Ifs Stories Wanted Three Cities Angel Window Twenties Blind Flying Grey Smog

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“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 that person to be there.”

Ifs Want Years Persons Stills Twenties Love Someone If You Really Love Someone

Author:Meg Cabot

“Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.”

“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 give a little piece of it back.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Years Littles Soul Pieces Kissing Years Ago Twenties Katie

Author:Tessa Dare

“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.”

Ifs Firsts Two Lasts Moving Attention Quality Special Century Expectations Shots Twenties Bored Length Seconds Intensity Moron Friction

Author:Geoff Dyer

“Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.”

“There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.”

People Ifs World Ends Lucky Twenties Nine Fifteen Seventies Being Loved Lucky You

Book:About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“"I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide to elope to Las Vegas where Jared uses his powers to clean up at the poker tables and you guys buy a mansion in the Manzano Mountains with twenty-seven rooms and decide - because you're rich and all - to buy a new computer, can I have your iMac then?"... "Um, no, you're not getting my iMac." "Dang."”

Ifs Thinking Said Use Guy Next Rooms Rich Mountain Computer Sitting Twenties Tables Clean Seven Vegas Las Vegas Brooklyn Mansions Imac

Author:Darynda Jones

“If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.”

People Ifs Thinking Courses Asks Consequence Twenties Calm Drunk Twenty One Fourteen Calm Down

Author:Ben Aaronovitch

“Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Love Mind Real Age Law Belief Parent Growth Love Is Emotional Drink Twenties Teenager Twisted Love Is Like Emotional Growth

Book:The Edge of Never

Source: The Edge of Never

“One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on Seth. "This is the women's restroom." She points a finger to the door. "Can't you read?" "Can't you see that everyone in this club is about twenty years younger than you?" Seth retorts, turning to the mirror. With his pinkie, he messes with bangs. "Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to have some fun.”

Ifs Years Eye Fun Walks Doors Land Twenties Mirrors Fingers Clubs Excuse Heavy Mess Shirts Swings Jeans Bangs Old Woman Restroom Retorts

Book:The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”

Ifs Might Remember Purpose Strong Memories Twenties Aim Uncertainty Confused Uncertain Patches Short Life Entirety Overlapping Backtracking

Author:Julian Barnes

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”

Ifs Knows Stills Twenties Seven Teenager Seventeen

Author:Ray Bradbury

“And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Looks Different Suffering Seeing Honest Goes On Right Now Years Ago Okay Twenties Mirrors Mess Being Honest Make You Happy Messed Up Looking In The Mirror

Book:Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

“If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.”

Ifs World Should Whole Grows Morning Fool Return Twenties Conviction Whole World Afternoon Wiser Assured Vivid Hinder Mr Thornton

Book:Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês

Source: Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês

“No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Art I Can Dark Century Twenties London Alcohol Screens Bless Harry Potter Consumed Potters God Bless Dark Art

Book:The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)

Source: The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)

“Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.”

Ifs Thinking Said Wanted Young Twenties Ballet Twenty One Brida

Author:Paulo Coelho

“She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.”

“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”

“Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities”

People Ifs Want Life Needs Believe Age Life Is Change Inspirational Life Twenties Priorities Chosen Insightful Changing Your Life Twenty One Need A Change You Need To Change

Author:John C. Maxwell

“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.”

Ifs Life Littles Has Beens Age Science Work Five Hard Work Twenties Mathematics Math Mathematical Accomplishment Thirty Accomplished Mathematician Twenty Five

Author:Alfred Adler

“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 don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Years Looks I Can Important Soul Success Sports Twenties Athlete Motivational Sports Quarters Medal

Author:Vincent Matthews

“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

“The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.”

People Ifs Men Way Firsts Long Ideas Different Seems Used Fighting Left Chance Five Victory Twenties Intelligent Intellect Every Man Clarity Different Ways Judged Twenty Five Brainwash

Author:Ezra Pound

“If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.”

Ifs Helping Time Hours Millions Five Week Equal Labor Twenties Helping Others Volunteer Volunteerism

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“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 out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Giving Years Kind May Whole Eye Hate Voice Pieces Tears Sweet Findings Twenties London Bitter Poison Hate You Fellowship Unkind Sweet Voice Chloroform

Book:You Never Can Tell

Source: You Never Can Tell

“The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven't got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need. You're not going to organize everything; you're just going to get it started.”

People Ifs Needs Guy Games House Names Hell Doors Havens Commitment Twenties Organize Need You Go To Hell

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“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.”

Ifs Should Hours Four Sick Twenties Be Good Selfishness If I Could Wretched

Book:Her Brothers Her Journal

Source: Her Brothers Her Journal

“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”

Ifs Water Rich Sea Rocks Mines Pure Gold Twenties Sand Pearls Jewels Jewelry Nectar

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.”

Ifs Giving Should May Doe Enough Facts Seems Science Lines Levels Results Failing Lows Draws Standards Hundred Twenties Experiments Fifty Significance Statistics Cents Odds Scientific Facts

Author:Ronald Fisher

“When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“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 long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.”

Ifs Years Long Two Play Today Three Courses Hours Taken Becoming Long Time Years Ago Twenties Golf Rounds Golf Course

Author:Alister MacKenzie

“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”

Ifs Years Two War Certain Fighting Force Five Blood Military Victory Years Ago Flow Destruction Twenties France Germany Five Years Twenty Five Barbarism

Author:Edouard Daladier

“A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it.”

Ifs Love Needs Years Stills Courses Opinion Wife Share Havens Expression Husband Married Twenties Asking Wine Drinking Vices Satisfied Vice Versa Vintage Do You Love Me

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard.”

Source: A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole commonwealth, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty eight years labour

“Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.”

Ifs Years Wells Persons Three Business Brain Streets Wall Normal Picks Percent Twenties Intelligent Investing Average Experts Convince

Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.”