A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.
Regardless of what happens, when I'm seventy years old, I can look back and say that I did this the way I wanted to, on my terms, and I gave it everything I got.
An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.
Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me.
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.
If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.
Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.
Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.
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.
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.
You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.
Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.
I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
It takes about seventy-five pages for a Parker reference - from 'The Score,' specifically - to show up in Geoff Manaugh's 'A Burglar's Guide to the City.'
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
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