Fifty Quotations | Page 2

Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

Fourteen for twenty-nine, that's been our Achilles heel all year. You shoot under fifty percent in close games, you will not win.

If a scout came up to all of the baseball coaches in the conference and said, 'Here's 100 of the best kids in Missouri,' ... I would probably have to tear that sheet in half. Fifty of them right off the bat academically wouldn't be able to get in.

Forty-five thousand seats is not enough. Fifty thousand to 52,000 would be enough for a New York stadium.

We think customers who are spending forty or fifty dollars a month now will move up to the eighty-to-ninety dollar range and use this as their (main) phone.

He's a shadow of himself. His speech is slurred. He lost fifty pounds. He was found hanging in his cell. He was found seriously hurt and hanging.

He didn't mean to do it. I said, 'At least you're man enough.' Fifty percent of the guys will wait for the phone call the next day. That's why I respect Mark Martin more than anybody.

I wouldn't say everybody gambles. Probably a large number of the population does. When you are talking about millions of dollars, that's when it becomes a big deal. Fifty bucks here and there is not that bad, but when you have big money and when police get involved, it's serious. The police just don't get involved for nothing, for no reason.

It adds a little more power to yesterday's wording change in the Fed statement. Fifty (basis point interest rate hike) is coming, maybe not in May, but June is really starting to stand out now.

I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.

It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent

People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What's the use of having fifty percent of the world's wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you're going to live this pathetic, terrified life?

Our goal is to move as many people as possible to the new location. Fifty percent of current employees would be the best possible result.

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Three hundred and fifty additional confirmed and probable cases of mumps have been reported from seven states ? Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

You know, fifty percent of the marriages in America end in divorce, and eighty percent of married couples, one or the other has had adultery.

When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty feet up in the air and climbing down. Literally, it's so busy, you feel you're on a ship. You're always moving; you're constantly adding clothes or taking them off, and there are many people on stage all the time!

We haven't been very disciplined. We have to take our stick off guys. That's just about learning. Fifty games in, these are very important points for us.

Well I think that, really, when I look back on fifty years of working on folk music in America and elsewhere, I think maybe the most important contribution I made to the future was the time that I put in with these two people. I was very young and I could really sit at their feet.

Yeah, fertilizer. It's spring time and you can't beat this seven fifty a bag. A real good deal.

We definitely need them, I'd be willing to pay a fifty cent tax, that's the only way to stop this crime in the city.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

The fact that he is continuing to improve is awesome. Throwing 49-6 is unbelievable. Fifty feet here he comes. That's all I have to say.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

Never trust a man who can dance.

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

There are 28 million people that went to work this morning who make less than the poverty level, ... Fifty percent of the workers in America used to draw defined benefit retirement plans when they finished their working careers. That number is down to 17 percent. More and more Americans face their old age without adequate financial resources to enjoy that retirement in dignity.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

Fifty years from now, people will look back upon a Pan American Clipper flight of today as the most romantic voyage of history.

Fifty years ago this was not a big deal. Today, absorbing $18,500 is a problem or $10,000 or whatever the calculation is in your community, somebody has to pay for it.

Fifty years ago in America, law schools had virtually no women students or professors, and their attitude then is much like that in the film industry today. The prevailing opinion was that women don't want to be lawyers and, anyway, they wouldn't be good at it; they're too emotional. But there was a movement that forced schools to change, and nobody today says women aren't capable lawyers. We're saying the same thing. Let women in, we'll show you we can do it.

Fifty years ago, if a colony was attacked, they would go elsewhere, but we don't have that any more. With more beachfront homes and more people coming to the coast, there are no extra areas.

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

Fifty years ago, everyone read a few general-interest publications such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazine. Today, there's an explosion of specialty publications. People are doing what they are interested in. If they're interested in working with children, they work with the Boy Scouts.

Fifty wins, that's a big goal. That's definitely a mark we want to get to. If we can get to 50 wins, then we had a good season.

Fifty to 100 years ago, humans had no choice but to be active. Today, we have to choose to be active,

Fifty points looks bad, but we've been in that kind of game all year long. And we were in that game again today.

Fifty points in the paint - that's unforgivable. You're not really playing very much defense.

Fifty percent of the students are on financial assistance. It's safe to say that 70 percent come from single-parent households.

Fifty percent of them will break up. If you were to add the dimension of working together, you'd probably see an increase.

Fifty percent of the job is getting the client in the door, ... The other 50 percent is their ability to talk about their company and answer important questions, that's where we can assist clients as well.

Fifty percent of teens are downloading that content on a regular basis.

Fifty percent of me says they'll keep mostly everybody here and 50 percent says they won't. I know the stadium is a big issue. Jeffrey wants to win more than anybody I've ever met, but at what price? I mean, how long can you afford to keep doing this? There are no prospects of getting us a stadium. We've won two world championships and we can't get one. It's crazy.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Fifty percent of it is gut. Unfortunately, there are very little ways to establish it with reliability.

Fifty percent of Actors' Equity is female, but opportunities for classically trained female actors are minute,

Fifty percent did not have to come to the station. Seventy-eight percent of the people were willing to use the Internet.

Fifty people, at least, have asked about what to do to eliminate birds in their trees, in their barns.

Fifty million dollars is more of a symbolic gesture from the Korean government.

Fifty games - sometimes I don't think that's enough.

Fifty cents of every $4 will go back to the family.

Fifty basis points is most likely; that's factored into the markets already.

We were doing the Monterey Pop Festival, which I produced with Lou Adler, and the town of Monterey was sort of frightened by the thought of two hundred and fifty thousand hippies coming.

you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

Up to fifty atomic bombs should be dropped on Chinese cities,

This was a frustrating result tonight. It is hard to believe we had fifty shot on net with only one power play. We played well, but just didn't score. We have to keep our heads up and find a way to win because we have another big game on Saturday night with a lot at stake.

Twenty-seven percent of the property owners have signed the petition, and we are waiting till the end of June as our target to get the (required) fifty percent.

You hear the statement that holding could be called on every play. I'd say it's more like fifty percent. There're three types of holding: there's the holding that could be called, the holding that should be called and the holding that actually is called.

You hear the statement that holding could be called on every play, ... I'd say it's more like fifty percent. There're three types of holding: there's the holding that could be called, the holding that should be called and the holding that actually is called.

With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.

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Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand

Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within

Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'.

Don't know about that. I'd love to see The Senders make it to fifty years.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: / The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.