Twenties Quotes - Page 12

Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished by the elders with whom I began to spend most of my professional time - how vivacious so many of them were, once I looked beyond my negative bias.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.