Seventy Quotes - page 5

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longess of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone. (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day. View quote
Kelly Ripa
A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles. View quote
Mark Zupan
Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen. View quote
Michael Moriarty
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. View quote
Mike Rutherford
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. View quote
Sandra Lee
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time. View quote
Richard Siken
What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous. View quote
Obert Skye
The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS. View quote
Mohammad Javad Zarif
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. View quote
Maurice Chevalier
Life of Paul of the Cross, founder of the Passionists. Astonishing really that he should be so little known, should have left so little impression..Strangely thrilling that St Paul - end of the eighteenth century! - should have prayed all his life for the conversion of England, pledging his sons to do likewise. Once, during Mass, he had a vision of my sons in England. But only in 1841, almost seventy years after his death, did they actually set foot on English soil - through Fr Dominic Barberi. It was he who received Newman into the Church.. (Ida Friederike Görres)
Romain Rolland: His journey to England was a triumphal progress... During his six months' stay he addressed seventy meetings of 40,000 persons and fascinated his audiences by the simplicity of his English and his musical voice. View quote
Keshub Chunder Sen
Seventy million people will talk about seventy million solutions to the same problem. View quote
Neamat Imam
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living as seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. View quote
Will Ferrell
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. View quote
Woody Allen
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. View quote
Oscar Wilde
"To be born,” they say, "is a felony--it is a capital crime, for which sentence may be executed at any moment after the commission of the offence. You may perhaps happen to live for some seventy or eighty years, but what is that, compared with the eternity you now enjoy? And even though the sentence were commuted, and you were allowed to live on for ever, you would in time become so terribly weary of life that execution would be the greatest mercy to you. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
If those papers had been in my pocket I would have never lived to be seventy. I have led a strange life, a set of complete coincidences. View quote
Abraham Pais
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. (Jonathan Sacks)
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor? View quote
Bill Hicks
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? View quote
Bill Hicks
I mean, naïve empiricism worked well enough, until the discoveries of quantum physics seventy or eighty years ago revealed the hideous secret that the bedrock of reality is a funhouse basement! View quote
Terence McKenna
Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space... View quote
Mario Vargas Llosa