#twenty

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#democratic #democratic republic #freedom #german #million

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#god #i #like #mccartney #paul

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. ↗

— John Zorn

#breaks #cooperative #even #every #grand

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#good idea #idea #lend #people #twenty

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

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #even #every #feel #get

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

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#favorite #first #form #genre #i