Words matter. These are the best Seventy Quotes from famous people such as Baltasar Gracian, James Dean, Mark Zupan, Doris Lessing, Johannes Tauler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I don’t want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty’s always good enough for me. I don’t want to have to give anybody seventy; I don’t want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.
A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.
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.
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
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.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
You don’t write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing 400 plus pages or seventy thousand odd words is incredibly daunting, but if you just focus on the immediate picture – say, 500 words – it’s not so overwhelming.
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.’
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Seventy years on, the wound of Partition is still raw. There have been some beautiful attempts like Garam Hava,’ but it’s not easy to make a film without hurting some sentiments.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
Obama’s IRS is not the IRS I’ve ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.
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.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won’t live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
Being seventy is not a sin.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
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.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.
I’ve been in the struggle over seventy years – it doesn’t bother me I may not win.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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 knows he can’t.
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn’t, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I’d been ready to go, you know.
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don’t like to see a gymnastics like that. I don’t know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die.
I remember Pavarotti telling me, ‘Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.’ But I’ve been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.
Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.
During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can’t kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever’s going to happen, it’s all okay because there’s no way they can kill the star.
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn’t really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious, economic, and global theories, stretched to seventy years in Russia and forty-five years in central Europe, thanks precisely to the intensive use of military and police force.
