207 Twenty Quotes for You to Enjoy

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone. Hillary Clinton

Alone Family You Business Book People Country Build Community Totally Lift Takes Looked Heal Wrote None Years Years Ago Lot Heck Title Mean Us Asked Village Twenty Raise

Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. Ban Ki-moon

Freedom Respect Rights Value Practice Human Rights United Nations Too Paper Pledge More Charter Individual Countries Freedoms Protecting Calls Encouraging Timeless Times Than Committed Human Nations Break Declaration Many Twenty United Fundamental Universal

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done. Billy Collins

Change Try Word Back Later Rip Some Minutes Poem Weeks Write Over Go Line Revise Very Get Sitting Tinker Done Just Much Forty Reason Whole Twenty Fast Thing Two

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Canning

Fault Too Much Matters Too Clap Per Advantage Equal French Content Commerce Offering Dutch Just Cent Little Much Asking Twenty

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out. Greg Boyle

Those Out More Bear Over Powerless Industries Years Than Burdens Poor Stand Stands Twenty Chosen Whose Margins

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Hannes Alfven

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. Ida B. Wells

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. John W. Gardner

Education Today Will Back Entirely Could Primitive Look Most Schools Practiced Am Years Wonder Anything Certain Tolerated Twenty Now

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! Kevin Spacey

You Heart Age Thirty Got Brains Establishment Turned Rebel Twenty

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. Lou Holtz

Day Balance Age Every Day Rest Profit Every Thirty Nine Paper Papers Out Collect Per Week Delivered Had Also Got Came Dollars Families Owed Six Customer Cents Average Each Twenty Keep Income Route

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way. Robert Guillaume

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? Abraham Polonsky

Animal Nice Live Think Wild Wild Animal Side Our East East Side Would Charley Only He Picked Columbus Instead Like Learn Boy Years Years Ago Up Jungle America Move Wanted Place Profession Grow Twenty Grow Up

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world. Adam Rich

World Better Band Think Way Out Crowd Better Way New Name Than Bands Get Just Being Biggest Your Twenty Playing

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Adlai Stevenson I

Man He Part Know Most Knows Did Fifty Twenty

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Best Good You Experience Year Nowadays Films Other Extraordinary Prestigious Critic See Through Supposedly Know Terrible Arriving Festivals Maybe Sixteen Being Where Twenty Film Watch Two

The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years. Alison Moyet

Love Beautiful Me Money Stove Care Father Daughter Smell Enough Had Excite Over Pieces Beautiful Things House Always Am Falling Been Years dont Care Decaying Fields Twenty Deserves Wasted Things

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary. Allen Tate

Honor Rare Must Determined More Only Know Commentary Than Shoot Gets Often Twelve Twenty Chance

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes. Amy Cuddy

Practice Holding Teeth Pencil Minutes Between Smiling Your Twenty

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness. Andy Behrman

When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience. Asa Butterfield

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss. Barbara Corcoran

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