Top 28 Quotes About 149
#1. Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.
~149
Nien Cheng
#2. On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#4. Rin-zai also says: "Spirit is formless, but it penetrates through the world in the ten directions."[FN#149] The Sixth Patriarch expresses the same idea more explicitly: "What creates the phenomena is Mind; what transcends all the phenomena is Buddha."[FN#150]
Kaiten Nukariya
#5. Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?"
"Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself," the mermaid said #149
Monique Duval
#6. All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future
a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life
is gone. [p. 149]
Sylvia Boorstein
#7. The chances are that, being a woman, young,
And pure, with such a pair of large, calm eyes,
You write as well ... and ill ... upon the whole,
As other women. If as well, what then?
If even a little better,..still, what then?
We want the Best in art now, or no art. (L144-149)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#9. Some are great, some greatness, and 149 some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy
William Shakespeare
#10. The transit of Venus of 1769 finally allowed us to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun: 149.59 million kilometres. A
Bill Bryson
#11. (Even the teachers noticed. Mr. Diaz walked past my locker when Finn was there and said, "For the love of all that is holy, you two, please don't breed.") Pg 149
Laurie Halse Anderson
#13. He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light
Michael Ondaatje
#14. In a crisis, give help first and then advice.
Aesop
#15. I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don't have time to check out everything I'd like to.
Steve Wozniak
#16. This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise.
MariJo Moore
#17. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?
Victor Hugo
#18. There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
Jay Neugeboren
#19. I am _not_ a woman from your village."
His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts.
Pamela Clare
#22. All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
Leo Buscaglia
#24. My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
Denis Leary
#25. The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#26. Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living
John Aubrey
#27. If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
John Le Carre
#28. But, love, hate on; for now I know thy mind.
Those that can see, thou lov'st; and I am blind.
William Shakespeare