Seven Quotes - page 3

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse. (Jeane Kirkpatrick)
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. View quote
Ann Coulter
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence-no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. View quote
Dean Koontz
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day! View quote
Denis Leary
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted. (Mario Lemieux)
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?" "That depends." "On what?" "On how I want to feel. View quote
Greg Egan
During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries. View quote
Nigel Lawson
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. View quote
W. C. Fields
The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force. View quote
Sadao Araki
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation, revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. View quote
Northrop Frye
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. View quote
Jane Austen
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future. View quote
John Steinbeck
Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics. View quote
Richard Feynman
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. (Stephen King)
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. View quote
William Blake
After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws." View quote
Plutarch
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me." View quote
Plutarch
I can't be sure God does not exist... On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six... That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't. View quote
Richard Dawkins