#nineteen

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

#chain #clear #describes #events #game

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fighting #fought #freedom #had #hope

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her. ↗

— Gene Ween

#actually #ago #been #divorced #five

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

#government #greatest #never #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cannot #century #death #explain #facts

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#below #cold #feet #felt #keenly

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bone #both #by the time #first #fort

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #been #fifteen #hijackers #i

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#already #beginning #come #culture #force