39 Quotes

#1. It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?

Jeff Hirsch

#2. We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

Elie Wiesel

#3. In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.

David Baldacci

#4. It's very well known that the Republicans have problems with minorities. The Democrats have big problems with white people. Obama only got 39% of the vote. He only got 36% of the working-class white people.

Bill Maher

#5. Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

#6. At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

Ted Lindsay

#7. But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39

Stephanie Coontz

#8. I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

Caitlin Moran

#9. When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers
no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription ... (39)

Susan Juby

#10. I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#11. And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

Edward James Olmos

#12. He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39

David Jeremiah

#13. It didn't seem possible to gain so much happiness from so little.

Peter Lerangis

#14. With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

Jude Watson

#15. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#16. With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting.

Peter Lerangis

#17. There are boys who will make you cry, and then there are boys who are worth spending your fabulous energy on.

Clifford Riley

#18. I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.

Sarah Silverman

#19. What if' is not much of an argument if there is no evidence. Second, you know the Quran tells Christians to 'judge by the Injil.'39 That means they still had it in Muhammad's day. The Injil is not a lost scripture.

Nabeel Qureshi

#20. If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

Warren Buffett

#21. President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.

Juan Williams

#22. Being trapped by fear is a form of delusion. Either I can do something or I can't. If I truly can't ... I don't do it. If I truly can, and it wold be a wholesome thing to do, I push myself [p. 39].

Sylvia Boorstein

#23. When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

Jude Watson

#24. It has been noted that one needs only 39 digits of Pi to make a circle the size of the observable universe accurate to one atom of hydrogen.

Jorg Arndt

#25. I place my hands on his chest. He presses me into the curve of his body. Tilts my chin up to meet his eyes. "I'll be good to you," he whispers. "I'll be so good to you, Juliette. I promise."
And he kisses me. Hungrily. Desperately. Eager to break me open and taste me.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. She was well away from the city now, watching for the turning onto Route 39, that magic thread of road Dr. Montague had chosen for her, out of all the roads in the world, to bring her safely to him and to Hill House; no other road could lead her from where she was to where she wanted to be.

Shirley Jackson

#27. It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.

Clifford Riley

#28. You can't call a ninja lord dweeb.

Rick Riordan

#29. Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun.

Gordon Korman

#30. If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it's possible and you do it.

Jude Watson

#31. I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#32. ...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem 'Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA')

Philip Gross

#33. Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)

Ravi Ravindra

#34. It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually ... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

Kyra Sedgwick

#35. We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)

Lauren Fox

#36. I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

Victoria Beckham

#37. I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

Marie Helvin

#38. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#39. My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

Mary Barra

#40. Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.

Jaromir Jagr

#41. I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

Patrick Carman

#42. Pony eyed the pitcher of hot fudge sauce Nellie had placed on the table. "And if you pass that pitcher, I will reveal a nugget of information that will please you and instantly return me to your good goddess graces."
Nellie pushed the pitcher forward. "Spill. Not the fudge sauce. The info.

Jude Watson

#43. The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self.

Russell M. Nelson

#44. I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school.

Sarah Silverman

#45. 39 percent of stocks had a negative total return. (Two out of every five stocks are money-losing investments.)

John Del Vecchio

#46. Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

Paul Gillmor

#47. Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39

Niall Ferguson

#48. I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

Tim Hardaway

#49. It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.

Aden Young

#50. Only 2.39 percent of companies that are owned and based in the United States have more than 100 employees, and just 0.2 percent has more than 1,000 employees.

Julia Tang Peters

#51. I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

Marv Levy

#52. You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.

Gordon Korman

#53. In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

Jack Nicklaus

#54. About the other one, which for the moment bears the code name Dedale 39, we know only what Ravel is willing to say about it one day to Manuael De Falla: it was supposed to be an airplane in the key of C.

Jean Echenoz

#55. Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29 ... What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?" questions? Worried? What about? Thirty-eight, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!

Kate Beckinsale

#56. We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

Lloyd Blankfein

#57. Lag ... occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years; ... 39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application.

Julius H. Comroe Jr.

#58. The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

Albert Einstein

#59. We worked under a lot of pressure ... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

Lloyd Bridges

#60. He looked around at the others ... They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now ... Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

David Baldacci

#61. Jesus is what the Bible is all about, and you are what Jesus is all about. (John 5:39)

Francois Du Toit

#62. In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

Gordon Korman

#63. About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time for some tasty hay! Haaaaaaay!

Peter Lerangis

#64. When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers.
And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

Miriam Hopkins

#65. There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

John McCain

#66. Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

Terrell Owens

#67. I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.

Monica Bellucci

#68. College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents ... and bounce it.

Henry Cho

#69. Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

Joe Hart

#70. If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever He elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. John 6:39.

Christopher Love

#71. I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Ernest Hemingway,

#72. The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

Smedley Butler

#73. Cat tongues are awesome.
Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

Jude Watson

#74. A Pew survey released this week found that 57 percent of Americans favor allowing same-sex marriage, while 39 percent oppose it. Just five years ago, only 42 percent of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 48 percent opposed it.

Anonymous

#75. Sir 39:25 He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him.

Various

#76. By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

Mark Ruffalo

#77. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.

Gordon Korman

#78. 39. Is there no way out of the mind?

Sylvia Plath

#79. He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Matthew 26:39

Beth Moore

#80. If a man's thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be perfect. 39.

Anonymous

#81. I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

Roy Jones Jr.

#82. Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921.

Paul Bartsch

#83. Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Azim Premji

#84. You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.

Jude Watson

#85. I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

Warren Buffett

#86. Indeed, as noted by economist Menzie Chinn, there is no visible relationship between top tax rates and overall economic growth, at least in the ranges the U.S. experienced.39

Erik Brynjolfsson

#87. I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Graves

#88. The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#89. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 13:39

Steven D. Mathewson

#90. I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

Rick Riordan

#91. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere

Gordon B. Hinckley

#92. These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD'S commands and obey them. Numbers 15:39

Beth Moore

#93. Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable enemy."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 39

Russel H.S. Stolfi

#94. Sir 39:27 His blessing hath overflowed like a river.

Various

#95. In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

Floyd Skloot

#96. The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ... Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].

Billy Graham

#97. I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Douglas Wilson

#98. The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

Tom Lantos

#99. I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

Jane Birkin

#100. If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors ... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

Sean Duffy