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  • On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an amazing thirty-three head of big game. I'm surprised I even came home. I was in heaven.

    Home   Years   Games  
  • Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

    Lying   Sheep   Years  
    Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press
  • 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

    Two   America   Twenties  
    "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.
  • As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

    "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.
  • A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

    Eight   Two   Twenties  
    Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion
  • While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

    Cancer   Writing   Two  
    "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.
  • I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Twenty-two suicides a day from our veterans. Do you believe that number? Twenty-two a day.

    Suicide   Believe   Two  
    "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.
  • Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

    Years   Here I Am   Two  
    Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

    Travel   Sleep   Two  
    Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black
  • I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

    Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.18, Delacorte Press
  • I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

    Believe   Book   Reading  
  • If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

    Dream   Years   Two  
    Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.86, Random House
  • Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.

    Sweet   Sleep   Two  
  • She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.

    Years   Two   Heaven  
  • You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

    Real   Work   Mean  
  • The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

    Christian   Men   Hands  
  • The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

    Father   Character   Two  
    Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1853). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.224
  • Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.”“because I have the members, I have never felt lonely.

    Lonely   Years   Two  
  • Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

    Music   Baby   Two  
  • The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

    Cute   Cat   Two  
  • I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

    Writing   Two   Twenties  
  • If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.

    Cells   Years   Two  
  • The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

    Two   Together   Twenties  
  • I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

    Country   Children   Men  
    "Copenhagen". Play by Michael Frayn, May 21, 1998.
  • It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

    Travel   Believe   Home  
  • Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than nine pages into a script and realizing to my horror that I'm only about a quarter of the way through the story I wanted to tell, and the next thing you know, I'm making fresh coffee and tearing up the floorboards to rewrite.

    Book   Coffee   Believe  
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