Quotes about year
years ideas ruins
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life. Edward Gibbon
years perfection people
Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.
years age west
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.
years crowns poverty
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.
years earth venture
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758. Edmond Halley
years civilization world
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. Edmond de Goncourt
years ideas costumes
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. Edith Head
years interesting together
There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar, favorite food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts. Edith Schaeffer
years may want
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again. Edith Wharton
years long battle
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
years people trouble
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
years people three
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there. Eddie Mathews
years political get-better
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish. Eddie Murphy
years looks filters
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
years lasts assuming
The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last. Ed Balls
years actors method
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg. Ed Asner
years half taught
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years. Ed Bradley
years water film
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry. Ed Begley, Jr.
years people upset
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' Earl Warren
years evil childhood
Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring. Dawn Powell
years agreement movement
The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do. David Trimble
years dollars waste
Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site. David Walker
years acting knows
That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year. David Walton
years four russian-language
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. David Remnick
years decision waging-war
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. David Horowitz
years awakening firsts
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? David Hilbert
years world gathering
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed. David Icke
years research facts
So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.
years nhs people
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. David Hockney
years drawing fifty
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.
years drawing painting
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.
years three patient
If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more. David Dreman
years voice speak
Dan Reynolds isn't ashamed to admit he hears 'things' others cannot. It has haunted his every walking moment for years. He doesn't like to talk about it much, but the voices in his head have become his constant companion. And when his inner muse speaks, Reynolds is quick to take notes. David Dunn