Fifty Quotes (13 quotes)

“If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

tags: fifteen, fifty, happiness

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“if you want to cry. cry in front of me.
I should know - Cristian Grey”
― E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey

tags: cristian, fifty, grey, love, shades

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“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.”
― Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love

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“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

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“There had to be a rule somewhere that evil overlords needed to be at least fifty, maybe sixty if they were pushing it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

tags: fifty, hot-villain, lol, rule, sixty, stereotypes, villain, wrong

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“Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those older despise the thought of me being younger, and, hence, me. So here I am, pressed from both sides, forced to wear blinders—FULL SPEED AHEAD!”
― Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations

tags: fifty, middle-age, rats, writing

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“To hell with your money
No no come on I belong to the family now see I know how it is with a young fellow he has lots of private affairs it's always pretty hard to get the old man to stump up for I know haven't I been there and not so long ago either but now I'm getting married and all specially up there come on don't be a fool listen when we get a chance for a real talk I want to tell you about a little widow over in town
I've heard that too keep your damned money
Call it a loan then just shut your eyes a minute and you'll be fifty
Keep your hands off of me you'd better get that cigar off the mantel”
― William Faulkner

tags: fifty, mantel, widow

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“Fifty years after landing on the Moon, we have learned that the Space industry is biologically toxic to over seven billion people on planet Earth.”
― Steven Magee

tags: billion, biologically, fifty, industry, landing, learned, moon, seven, space, toxic

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“If you have a degree, an established career history prior to disability, and are under fifty years of age, getting on government disability is extremely hard no matter how sick you are.”
― Steven Magee

tags: degree, disability, established, fifty, getting, government, matter, prior, sick

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“Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense
of suicidal absolution
that what we intended and failed
could never have happened—
and must be done better.”
― Robert Lowell

tags: aging, fifty, getting-older, middle-age, old-age, poem, poetry

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“The bulk of the hurricane Ian dead were over 50 years old.”
― Steven Magee

tags: 50, bulk, dead, fifty, florida, hurricane, ian, old, over, years

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“How extensive is police corruption in a police department? The Denver police uncovered an organized theft group involving almost fifty Police officers!”
― Steven Magee

tags: corruption, denver, extensive, fifty, officers, organized, police, theft, uncovered

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“The air is humid and flowery like teenage perfume”
― Yvonne Radley, Dandelion Yellow

tags: fifty, friendship, love, midlife

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