Midforties Quotes & Sayings

Watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of Growing Up was a sham, the bus out of town you're so busy waiting for, you don't notice it never actually comes. — Marisha Pessl

Forget yourself, but not lonely days... — Arash Pakravesh

The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate. — Archibald Marwizi

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever. — Margaret Thatcher

Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly. — Elizabeth Alexander

If patriotism is a scoundrel's last refuge, then the concept of freedom is his first sales pitch. — James Rozoff

The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close to fifty when its effects were truly felt.
He did not begrudge the younger generation their opportunities. He only wished that more of them, his own children, in particular, recognized their good fortune, the price that had been paid for it, and made the most of it. He was proud to have lived to see the change take place.
He wasn't judging anyone and accepted the fact that history had come too late for him to make much use of all the things that were now opening up. But he couldn't understand why some of the young people couldn't see it. Maybe you had to live through the worst of times to recognize the best of times when they came to you. Maybe that was just the way it was with people. — Isabel Wilkerson

i am suicidal i am depressed and i wish i was dead evey day but no body sees it or my tears and my scars that bleed — Laura Cooper

A very practical way to control who can interact with you, your credentials and your reputation is to partition 'you' into the multiple personas formed from pseudonyms. This — David Birch

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it. — Lizzy Caplan

He was in his midforties, tall and overweight, a sausage-fingered vulgarian in a slick suit. — Terry Hayes