Fortieth Quotes

#1. fortieth chapter of Isaiah. "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak,

Mark Romang

#2. On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

#3. We are surrounded with people who think that what we have been doing for that one-fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely. They are considered normal, but they are stark, raving mad.

John McPhee

#4. To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Tom Clancy

#5. If a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

Henry Mayhew

#7. On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

Alan Moore

#8. When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

Hari Kondabolu

#9. To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Pliny The Elder

#10. Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Karl Jaspers

#11. About six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so ... the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word.

Liane Moriarty

#12. My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Barbara Stanwyck

#13. Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

#14. The religion of Christ will unite in close brotherhood all who accept its teachings. It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile men to God, and thus to one another.

Ellen G. White

#15. reconciliation is radical because it is biblical.

Curtiss Paul DeYoung

#16. Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

Pete Stark

#17. With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Heather Locklear

#18. Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.

Jim Gaffigan

#19. I have two choices in life: I either try to do the right thing and get accused of being selfish, or I just do what is right for me and get called selfish anyway. This time, it's all about me.

Dawn O'Porter

#20. Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

Maurice Gibb

#21. [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Jonah Goldberg

#22. Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.

Paul McKenna

#23. The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

Eve Ensler