Twenties Quotes - Page 17

Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

At twenty every one is republican.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"

The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.