Fifth The Quotes

#1. I pray the tomb is shut forever," recited Harrowhawk, with the curious fervidity she always showed in prayer. " I pray the rock is never rolled away. I pray that which was buried remains buried, insensate, in perpetual rest, with closed eye and stilled brain. I pray it lives, I pray it sleeps ... I pray for the needs of the Emperor All-Giving, the Undying King, His Virtues and his men. I pray for the Second House, the Third, the Fourth, the Fifth; the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth. I pray for the Ninth House, and I pray for it to be fruitful. I pray for the soldiers and adepts far from home, and all those parts of the Empire that live in unrest and disquiet. Let it be so. #Quote by Tamsyn Muir

#2. Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power. #Quote by Sun Tzu

#3. Above the podium stood a decorated board showing the agenda for the day. The first item of business was the world urban crisis, the second - the ecology crisis, the third - the air pollution crisis, the fourth - the energy crisis, the fifth - the food crisis. Then adjournment. #Quote by Stanislaw Lem

#4. The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education. #Quote by Albert Schweitzer

#5. When the riot controls had been put into effect, and a nervous white population was waiting, it took little to set it off. In Wichita, a few white youths drove down into the black area and simply fired off guns. This brought black people out of their houses; in rage at seeing the harassment, they hurled stones or sticks at a passing car, and the battle was on. In that particular instance the police arrested the five whites who were armed and twelve young black men who had only rocks and sticks. All were jailed. The next morning, all were released on bail, but the bail set for the five armed whites was only one-fifth the amount set for the twelve unarmed black students. #Quote by John Howard Griffin

#6. And while it sounds bad to hear that Americans underpay their taxes by nearly one-fifth, the tax economist Joel Slemrod estimates that the U.S. is easily within the upper tier of worldwide compliance rates. #Quote by Steven D. Levitt

#7. In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete. And Truth comes somewhere above all of them, where, #Quote by Paul Kalanithi

#8. Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair. #Quote by Kevin DeYoung

#9. We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field. I don't know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. There is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer's system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Alchemy is a science, but a science that acknowledges certain principles of magic. This. . . this is a mathematical expression of quintessence, Archimedes' fifth element, which binds all things together. #Quote by Rachel Caine

#11. When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy? #Quote by Charles Benoit

#12. What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world. #Quote by Chris Witty

#13. Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth. #Quote by Murray Walker

#14. It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first. #Quote by Mark Teixeira

#15. At least a fifth of all mammalian species are bats. #Quote by Karen Shanor

#16. I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement. #Quote by Juan Manuel Marquez

#17. In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but couldn't tell a joke to a boy at lunch. #Quote by Anthony Marra

#18. If Resistance couldn't be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years. #Quote by Steven Pressfield

#19. They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it. #Quote by Dizzy Gillespie

#20. I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love. #Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. She knows some of her thoughts are irrational. She knows it and has always known it, even in fifth grade, when she used to layer on clothes - four shirts, three pairs of underwear, shorts under her jeans - anxiously, frantically crying her eyes out for fear people could see her naked through her clothes.
What an awful time that was. Fear like that is constant, tiring. #Quote by Lisa McMann

#22. If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one. #Quote by Ally Carter

#23. I'm a competitor. I once placed fifth in a bottle of whiskey. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#24. for Jared Lyman
(March 28, 1975-February 3, 2012)

A man who knew how to love people. For his son's twenty-fifth birthday (sixteen years from now) he wrote:

No Unlesses

I love you and I'm proud of you
You might be watching this from prison
If so - I love you and I'm proud of you

If you're watching this from backstage at Carnegie Hall - I love you and I'm proud of you.

It doesn't really matter where you are or what you're doing...

I will always be proud of you and I will always love you.

I think that's what I'd say.

I almost said "Unless..."

But I couldn't think of an "Unless"
Nope

No "unlesses #Quote by E.M. Tippetts

#25. I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man. #Quote by Reed Mullin

#26. Nyx had finished off a fifth of vodka for breakfast, since she'd sworn off whiskey. #Quote by Kameron Hurley

#27. Some things dwell in our minds that should never be afforded egress. You have to learn such, your mind is naïve and insipid. (Fifth Shadowlord) #Quote by Adam Mannan

#28. There is no fifth destination. #Quote by Armistead Maupin

#29. I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school. #Quote by Chris Hardwick

#30. I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?' #Quote by Nancy Roman

#31. On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. #Quote by Victoria Abril

#32. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. #Quote by Joseph Heller

#33. In addition to water, air, earth and fire, there is a fifth element essential for life: his name is poetry. #Quote by Corina Abdulahm-Negura

#34. You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win. #Quote by Ayrton Senna

#35. Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. #Quote by Max Lucado

#36. How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think. #Quote by Barry Schwartz

#37. As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author. #Quote by Victoria Hanley

#38. Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. #Quote by Terry Goodkind

#39. In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. #Quote by Jeff Goodell

#40. Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place. #Quote by Murray Walker

#41. Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up. #Quote by Linda Hunt

#42. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday. #Quote by Johan Norberg

#43. I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined. #Quote by Mitch Albom

#44. money. Halfway through that fifth grade year there was no money out on anyone's desk. #Quote by Barthe DeClements

#45. His mother is having treatments by Dr. Froyd...it is quite hard for Dr. Froyd, because she cannot seem to remember which is a dream and which really happened to her. So she tells him everything, and he has to use his judgement. I mean when she tells him that a very very handsome young gentleman tried to flirt with her on Fifth Avenue, he uses his judgment. #Quote by Anita Loos

#46. Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden ... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member. #Quote by Kim Gordon