#seventy

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. ↗

— St. Jerome

#battlefield #being #dead #dying #engaged

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#easily #hard #i #i can #i write

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#disappear #disappeared #eighty #fifty #forty-five

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. ↗

— David Cassidy

#audiences #back #been #five #following

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#been #cent #four #funny #i

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#full #hope #know #man #reform

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#body #causes #change #changed #changes

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing