Twenties Quotes - Page 3

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future, centuries before it came to be. Hence, we affirm with the utmost confidence, that the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible attest and demonstrate the truth that the Scriptures are the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

I will lose twenty pounds like... I can lose ten... I have. I can lose ten in a week and a few days.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.