#forty

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#blind #cross #dark #falls #forty

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#forty #men #age

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last. ↗

— Kevin Barry

#aging #clarity #forty #life #realization

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#away #big #buying #credit #dollars

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#fifty #forty #old #old age #youth

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#been #better #book #cases #come

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. ↗

— Woody Allen

#billion #crime #dollars #forty #little

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#forty #half #nearly #past #seventy

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#attacked #been #close #creatures #enough