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“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.”

Giving Trying Wells Enough School Form Left Easy Break Support Trouble High School Twenties Forgotten Our Family Credence

Author:Julia Leigh

“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.”

“Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.”

Left Behinds Millions Twenties Towns Miles Left Behind

Author:Brigid Lowry

“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”

World Stills Two Might Left Wish Victory Twenties Seven Glad Seventies

Author:Lucy Stone

“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.”

Years Humans Self Spiritual Father Left My Own Twenties Seven Russia Witness Seven Years Monument Grim Deterioration

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

Wells Earth Faces Father Left Adventure Taste Died Twenties Dollars Pursuit Almighty Twenty One Resigned Wanderers Father Died My Father Died

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.”

“It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.”

Facts Left Poet Six Twenties Workers Ironic Detroit

Author:Philip Levine

“We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.”

Firsts Left Speak Sides Study Century Theory Speech Abuse Twenties Strategy Committed Professors Excess Free Speech Speaks Out Suppression Reluctance

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.”

Knows Next Left Easy Sleep Forget Taken Too Much Minutes Couple Wake Up Twenties Pills Irresponsible Medication Forget You Left Alone Sleeping Pills

Author:Judy Garland

“The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.”

People Years Two Home Night Left Walks Shots My Friends Balls Twenties Clean Bars Drunk Drank Couches Buckets Twenty Two

Author:Jon Stewart

“I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.”

Men Years Persons School Law Left White Mets Six Twenties Insult Scar Segregation Harvard Law School Unforgettable Six Year Olds Grown Man Harvard Law School

Author:Randall Robinson

“If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we'll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they'll have to respond. But they're not going to respond to us until that happens.”

People Ifs Happens Left Moral Principles Millions Ten Twenties Majority Democrat Voting Scare Fifteen Moral Principles Hold Fast

Author:Chris Hedges

“I left my theatre the Loose Moose almost twenty years ago, and I hardly ever go back. Sometimes I go back to do a Mask class. They're doing more of this than I was doing when I left. Often it's the same improvisers but they're older. And now, they don't care if the theatre's full or not.”

Ifs Years Sometimes Care Left Class Years Ago Twenties Don't Care Theatre Mask Moose

Author:Keith Johnstone

“I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.”

Ifs Men Play Wanted Left Gone Team Football Twenties Clubs Liverpool Playing Football

Author:Jamie Carragher

“Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.”

Years Firsts Choices Left Answers Century Twenties Socialism Barbarity

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

“The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window.”

Want Said Left Party Theory Cat Window Twenties Tables Finished Dancer Tonight Feeding Rangers

Book:Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

“Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.”

Knows Want Wells Said Eye Turns Left Ability Talking Know How Opposites Twenties Miles Bunch Idiot Disgusting Ninety Exit Bossy Gps

Author:James Patterson

“But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.”

Knows Men Left Hours Know How Four Twenties Cards

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”

Giving Heart Children Done Wanted Mother Fall Jesus Lost Left Hurt Five Birth My Heart Twenties Tables Arguing Desert Knees Kitchen Fourth Hurt Me Pistols

Book:Jesus' Son: Stories

Source: Jesus' Son: Stories

“Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.”

Years Left Proud Drama Twenties Fierce

Author:Dorothy Allison

“How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”

Knows Years Young Left Walks Picks Twenties Eight

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“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

“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”

Men Humans Real Age Young Left Study Five Calling Increase Twenties Aging Invisible Young Man Birthday Covered Wiser Twenty Five Barrels Nineteen 50th Birthday Human Happiness

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.”

“Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.”

Firsts Wells Heart Children Stills Hands Left White Behinds Laughing Gone Summer Garden Rivers Twenties Surface Peaceful Hats Swimming Stunning Summer Garden

Author:Paullina Simons

“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

“"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.”

Firsts Moments Hands Law Left Class Rich Five Heard Middle Youth Twenties Golf Clubs Divorce Middle Class Breakfast Swings Virgins Aunt In-laws Champagne Twenty Five Left Hand Golf Clubs

Author:John Updike

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."”

Source: The queen of the sciences

“And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.”

People Men World Persons Whole Eye Used Energy Left Poor Rich Taken Five Four Meditation Seeing Majors Percent Twenties Blind East Saved Senses Cents Poor People Eighty Inner World Five Senses

Author:Rajneesh

“I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Years Today Earth Choices Left Causes Bits Party Pieces Goes On Twenties Saving Bits And Pieces Saving Up

Author:Janis Joplin

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