Fifty Quotes

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

But if two and two and fifty make a million...

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.

FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.