Five Quotes - page 5

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. (Robert A. Heinlein)
The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives. View quote
Alain de Botton
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five. View quote
Leonard Cohen
When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed – thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave. View quote
Alanis Morissette
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. View quote
Francis Parkman
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year. View quote
Thomas Malthus
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. View quote
Everett Dirksen
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." (Freeman Dyson)
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. View quote
Amy Winehouse
Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the ‘Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack. View quote
Paul Erdős
In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs. View quote
Lewis Black
I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know. View quote
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War. View quote
Roger Waters
Church and State should be united in the White Man's religion. - Global White Racial Loyalty and Solidarity must be our constant goal. - Race is everything. In order to survive and prosper, the White Race must overcome its five main enemies: Judaism, Christianity, Communism, Liberalism and Nationalism. View quote
Ben Klassen
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. View quote
David Attenborough
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint. (Gertrude Stein)
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. View quote
Jamie Oliver
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation. View quote
Stephen Fry
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. View quote
Ted Turner