Quotes about years
years cities world
Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years. Jaime Lerner
years economic social
...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU. Jacques Delors
years trying firsts
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. Jacques Derrida
years expectations people
I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of. Jackie DeShannon
years stuff roles
I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back. Jacki Weaver
years rolling balls
David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.
years careers changing-my-life
I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet. Jackie Chan
years people asia
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
years car alive
There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say. Jack White
years wandering-around littles
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing. James Garner
years soul progress
Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living. James Freeman Clarke
years cake pie
I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda. James Frey
years long problem
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. J. William Fulbright
years way months
My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch. J. R. R. Tolkien
years return endure
A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return.
years two half
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
years weather evil
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
years civilization progress
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
years gone statistics
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way. Isaac Asimov
years scary peculiar
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.
years long fifty
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.
years holocaust forget
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. Iris Chang
years shopping hounds
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace Irene Dunne
years fans today
My fans are grown now. They are not expecting me to do the bubblegum pop I did 20 years ago, even though it was pretty substantive. It was saying more than bubblegum pop says today. I am continuing where I left off. Irene Cara
years eyeglasses accessories
I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them. Iris Apfel
years majority
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years. Elon Musk
years eight yeah
Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. Elton John
years wonderful partners
I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.
years people lazy
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it. Ellen Barkin
years important action
I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences. Irving Kristol
years worry age
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it. Ingrid Bergman
years smoking one-day
Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself. Neale Donald Walsch
years understanding growth
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.