Four Quotes - page 2

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times. (Jack Osbourne)
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. View quote
Quentin Crisp
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. View quote
Judith Viorst
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time. View quote
John Updike
While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. View quote
John Adams
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. (Francis Crick)
Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. View quote
John Denham
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. View quote
Jack Kerouac
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. View quote
John von Neumann
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. View quote
Dolly Parton
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. View quote
John Cage
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. (Dashiell Hammett)
The General Strike has taught the working classes more in four days than years of talking could have done. View quote
Arthur Balfour
The "democracy gap" in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the "least worst” every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the "least worst” gets worse. View quote
Ralph Nader
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. View quote
Willie Nelson