Quotes about year
years together mountain
The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain. Georges Braque
years numbers details
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life. George Wilson
years choices important
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends. George Will
years europe bayonets
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.
years skills mind
[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.
years office training
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant. George Ryan
years age
Years do not always make age. George Sand
years bird tree
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would. George Saunders
years race feelings
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.
years way lists
I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that. Jenna Fischer
years world location
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
years reflecting-back people
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. Jeffery Deaver
years charity auctions
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. Jeffrey Archer
years firsts done
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
years white black
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
years chains biodiversity
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
years presidential political
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. Jeff Miller
years trying trends
I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi. Jean Pigozzi
years something-new five-years
Every five years, I decide to learn something new.
years cannes-film-festival people
People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. Jean-Luc Godard
years two half
I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability. Jean-Claude Juncker
years want membership
I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.
years parliament brussels
After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.
years europe realization
I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.
years population industrialization
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed. Jim Gerlach
years political arena
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough. Jim Hightower
years doe psychotherapy
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. Jim Harrison
years guitar thankfulness
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord. Jerry Reed
years people fundamentals
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental. Jerry Pournelle
years building plunder
We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.
years fowl world
A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl Eoin Colfer
years over-you rumor
Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally. Emma Bunton
years boredom long
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom. Elsa Maxwell