Five Quotes - page 2

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. (Ronald Reagan)

The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions.

Paul Samuelson

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

James Thurber

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

Vangelis

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.

Norman Borlaug

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

John von Neumann

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

G. K. Chesterton

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Stephen Fry

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. (James McNeill Whistler)

(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

Willie Nelson

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

P. G. Wodehouse

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Kenny Rogers

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

I feel sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.

Woody Allen

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Gracie Allen

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca

One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

William Stanley Jevons

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Jules Verne

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Benjamin Franklin

Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.

Henry Mintzberg

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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