Ninetieth Quotes

#1. By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

James A. Michener

#4. Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

Lleyton Hewitt

#5. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.

Idries Shah

#6. She frowned when she realized his basket was more even and round than hers. Colonel

K.M. Shea

#7. When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Your mentality sets the stage for your prosperity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#9. Violence destroyed families. Violence destroyed lives.

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He'd never been a violent man, but he'd seen it. It killed the spirit and left families fearful and hopeless.

Gail Gaymer Martin

#10. I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Julien Green

#11. The morning slathers its whatever
across the thing.

Michael Robbins

#12. All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#13. Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.

Colin Powell

#15. For the first time in his life, Roland found himself hating his own childhood. He wished for the size and calluses and sureness of age.

Stephen King