Top 100 The Five Quotes
#1. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Bruce Barton
#2. Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
E.F. Benson
#3. Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is.
Brene Brown
#4. Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
David Amram
#5. Charles realized his Academy office was far too small to contain the five feet of green eyed fury in front of his desk. Although, in fairness, an airship hanger might not have been large enough.
Eric James Spannerman
#6. One day I will write the story of our service in the Faith. I feel our Order has been sadly missing in recording its history. Do you know we are the only Order not to have its own library? (Caenis, about the Book of the Five Brothers)
Anthony Ryan
#7. The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.
Sathya Sai Baba
#8. Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.
Celia Imrie
#9. In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
Robert Breault
#10. In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?
Stefan Sagmeister
#11. We have senses we don't know we have-until we lose them; balance is one that normally works so well, so seamlessly, that is not listed among the five that Aristotle described and was overlooked for centuries afterward.
Norman Doidge
#12. I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.
Timothy Leary
#13. You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.
James Altucher
#14. A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski
#15. - I have come for advice.
- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.
#The Five Orange Pips
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. while the Tarahumara run to get from point to point, in the process they travel into a zone beyond geography and beyond even the five senses.
Scott Jurek
#17. The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.
Sigmar Gabriel
#18. Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
Howard Coble
#19. Scarlet the poppies
Blue the corn-flowers,
Golden the wheat.
Gold for the Eternal:
Blue for Our Lady:
Red for the five
Wounds of her Son.
Adelaide Crapsey
#20. Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Joseph Rotblat
#21. They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
Red Auerbach
#22. The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
James Cash Penney
#23. The First Amendment ... begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
George Will
#24. The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
David Frum
#25. Ruby clapped her hands in glee and gave a comedic wiggle of her head, Bollywood style.
I know the song now, can even sing it, but back then all I heard was the verdant Punjabi, the striking primary colours of the five rivers, the intricate history of a complex land.
Ruth Ahmed
#26. But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up in the sky overhead and the light turns a queer purple-yellow and the wind dies completely.
Stephen King
#28. Sophia Mercer," Elodie intoned, "we have come to induct you into our sisterhood. Say the five words to begin the ritual."
I blinked at her. "Are you freaking kidding me?"
Anna gave an exasperated sigh. "No, the five words are 'I accept you offer, sisters.
Rachel Hawkins
#30. If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ... " You were never their age. You were older in the womb.
Bill Cosby
#31. Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
Dean Smith
#32. Besides, Prague is famous for its many churches with gold-leaf covered domes. In the sunshine, Prague is golden. I fell in love for ever. At the end of the five day stay, the entire group boarded a train for Paris. Although my parents knew the time of my arrival, they could not travel on the
Pearl Fichman
#33. There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.
Diana Gabaldon
#34. No one's going to be at our hundred-year reunion. Hell, no one's coming back for the five-year reunion." That was probably true.
Amy Zhang
#35. The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
#36. I went to the library to look up the figures, and I found out that the episode we watched is the highest watched anything of television history, which I find amazing because it felt like just the five of us.
Stephen Chbosky
#37. Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.
Michael Josephson
#38. He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them.
S.A. Tawks
#39. When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.
Michael Mina
#40. [The five cardinal virtues of the Chinese are (1) humanity or benevolence; (2) uprightness of mind; (3) self-respect, self- control, or "proper feeling;" (4) wisdom; (5) sincerity or good faith.
Sun Tzu
#41. What are the five stages of realizing you just did something too stupid to tell your friends?
Ruth Cardello
#42. Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
Andy Richter
#43. The soul cannot be perceived by the five senses.The soul speaks to us through our intuitive mind.-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#44. I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
Bryan Adams
#45. The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses.
Mathieu Amalric
#46. I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.
Tracy Morgan
#47. The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality. In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life - birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death. And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual.
Dan Brown
#48. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.
Waller R Newell
#49. Getting healthy doesn't have to be a chore. The Five Rivers Journey requires minimal extra effort for the maximum results!
Dev Lahli
#50. The five branches are immortalized in every medical student's memory as Two Zombies Buggered My Cat (Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular and Cervical). Remembering
Gavin Francis
#51. I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.
Trudi Canavan
#52. You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.
Harry Hill
#53. The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
Robin Hobb
#54. You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
Drew Houston
#55. Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin
Frederick Leboyer
#56. Perhaps a man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five known to us are destroyed and the remaining ninety-five are left alive.
Anton Chekhov
#57. Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.
Janet Fitch
#58. When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'
Roland Martin
#59. In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.
Janet Yellen
#60. They weren't so much a constellation, the five of them, as a series of scattered stars.
Jennifer E. Smith
#61. It was exciting just to stand in front of the hallowed ground of Birdland that had been blessed by John Coltrane, or the Five Spot on St. Mark's Place where Billie Holiday used to sing, where Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman opened the field of jazz like human can openers.
Patti Smith
#62. His face registered the five stages of unlawful investigation: disbelief, skepticism, impatience, irritation, and astonishment.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#63. He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.
Paulo Coelho
#64. The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.
Kenneth Choi
#65. Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.
Glynn Turman
#66. Prana (controls breathing), Apana (controls excretion), Udana (controls speech), Samana (controls digestion), and Vyana (controls circulation) form the five Vayus!
Girish Haridas
#67. I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger
Nick Carter
#68. It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.
Leni Zumas
#69. Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.
Bruce Lee
#70. He was one of the five soldiers. He was wearing red then." Bel looked back. "Well, he's wearing red now.
Rosemary Kirstein
#71. Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him
Murray Walker
#72. Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths
Kirk D. Sinclair
#73. Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
Chris Cornell
#74. We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.
Lionel Barber
#75. She picked up the ballpoint pen lying on the table, and played with it for a few seconds, but then she looked at the clock again. It had done its job: in the five minutes since her last look, it had advanced five minutes' worth.
Haruki Murakami
#76. But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
Timothy Ferriss
#77. I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.
Peter V. Brett
#78. We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more ... imagination.
Wes Adamson
#79. The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.
Richard Stearns
#80. Never dress older than you are! The five wardrobe items you must have are a nice pair of well-fitting shoes, pajamas, sexy yet comfortable lingerie, a party dress in a bold colour and a jumpsuit.
Elizabeth Jagger
#81. The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.
James Hansen
#82. I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
Annette Bening
#83. I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan.
Trisha Yearwood
#84. The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
Andy Taylor
#85. We can condition our bodies and minds to happiness with the five practices of letting go, inviting positive seeds, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#86. Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.
Robert Payne
#87. The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
Mencius
#88. Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
Charles Lamb
#89. The five-inch heels on her thigh-high boots looked like they should require a liability waiver to wear.
Annette Marie
#90. The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. 'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.
Trudi Canavan
#92. While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.
Chika Anadu
#93. The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
#94. I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the centre of the earth and make the circuit of the moon and stars
Simone De Beauvoir
#95. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.
Jeffrey Friedland
#96. Hanna Krall's book Shielding the Flame drew on the experience of Dr. Marek Edelman, who before he died in 2009 was the sole survivor of the five-person command that led the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Chris Hedges
#97. My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones
#98. In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.
Ian McKellen
#99. Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. But five minutes later the five-hundred-year-old Roman chapel was filled to the rafters with the soaring sounds of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody,
Tiffany Reisz
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