Fifty Quotes - page 2

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace. (Frank B. Kellogg)
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. View quote
Carl Schurz
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. View quote
Al Lewis
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. View quote
Dennis Muren
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. View quote
Mary Wesley
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. ... what has no meaning admits no explanation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights-and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks, one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller, usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well-magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? (Stephen Jay Gould)
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor. View quote
Charles Barkley
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. View quote
David Mermin
The best estimates are that it takes a minimum of fifty thousand years for an adaptation to show up in the human genome. This is called evolutionary lag... Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had a very different lifestyle... View quote
Daniel Levitin
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Be glad you're fifty - and That you got there while things were nice, In a world worth looking at twice. So here's wishing you many more years, But not all that many. Cheers! View quote
Kingsley Amis
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty. View quote
Joan Rivers
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio-that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience. (Benjamin Graham)
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer. View quote
Roger Zelazny
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true. View quote
John Dos Passos
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. View quote
Bruce Sterling