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“Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.”

Men Believe Said Real Twenties Twenty One Cursing

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”

“People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.”

People Past Faces Race Streets Walking Twenties Endless Twenty One Spray Pigment

Book:Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“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

“I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests.” “So?” she snapped. “It’s a party.” “Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one.” “Great!” Marcie shouted. “What am I going to do?” She paused, then raised her voice again. “You probably called them!” “Who, me?” Vee said. “And lose the free food? No way.”

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

World Years Littles Home Existence Rich Blessing Comfortable Twenties Clever Distress Disposition Handsome Twenty One Emma Vex Happy Disposition

Book:Emma: By Jane Austen

Source: Emma: By Jane Austen

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.”

Thinking Doe Century Birth Genius Authority Tradition Weight Twenties Insane Witness Staring Vans Twenty One Countrymen Perks Bearing Witness

Book:The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“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

“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

“Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,” I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. “That’s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.”

Said Two Hands Bigs Waiting Laughing Twenties Seven Favors Shoulders Cups Cake Sugar Dozen Odds Fifteen Pirate Eighteen Twenty One Thirteen Bakers Andrea Short Laugh

Book:Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

“When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.”

Should Littles Age Time Twenties Aging Nine Forty Suspects Twenty One

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“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

“An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections

“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.”

“When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.”

Years Age Lasts Science Father Twenties Seven Amazed Seven Years Twenty One Fourteen Unintelligent Astounded

Author:Mark Twain

“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.”

Love Mean Long I Can Age Young Forget Audience Fronts Twenties Aging Old Age Vitality Getting Old Growing Old Twenty One

Author:George Burns

“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.”

Father Sex Bird Twenties Witty Liars Steady Bees Twenty One Funny Sex Woodpeckers

Author:Bob Hope

“Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.”

Stills Done Havens Twenties Immortality Twenty One

Author:Judith Malina

“The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.”

Years Mean Two Ends Twenties Two Years Twenty One Twenty Two Just Realized

Author:Nastassja Kinski

“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”

Taken Happened Color Brother Comfortable Scientist Twenties Photograph Expected Magazines My Brother Almighty Mechanic Twenty One Hiroshima Scientific Truth

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

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