#fifty

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#father #fifty #haven #i #me

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#fifty #good #obscure #years

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#confess #fifty #fly #i #man

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #fifty #foreign #foreign policy #get

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#fifty #fifty percent #get #hundred #i

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#count #fifty #girl #marry #only

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#create #criminal #dangerous #day #fifty