They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
James Stockdale

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
Tony Visconti

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Diane Duane

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
Leon Blum

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

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
Dorothy Thompson