Quotes about years
years ideas moments
Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own. Sarah Ban Breathnach
years fax-machines firsts
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. Sara Blakely
years way firsts
Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
years firsts revenue
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
years polaroids clear
You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
years islam doe
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. Samuel P. Huntington
years progress next-year
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited. William Feather
years san-francisco answers
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. William F. Buckley, Jr.
years would-be desert
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.
years
Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible. William Faulkner
years clouds vision
The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead. Willard Scott
years two roots
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. Wietse Venema
years water humbling
It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water. Warren Sapp
years skis ifs
If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do. Warren Miller
years government needs
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much. Ronald Reagan
years four politics
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
years numbers perfection
Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year? Saint Francis de Sales
years worldly-life devotion
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
years trying lasts
What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts. Tracy Morgan
years voice sometimes
Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years Tori Amos
years sea people
For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . . Vernon A. Walters
years firsts vogue
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox. Vera Wang
years design frustrated
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
years age twists
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. Vera Farmiga
years two choices
It wasnt until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed. Vanessa Kerry
years track details
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track. Valentino Garavani
years bird sunrise
It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds. Valerie Bertinelli
years car tests
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season. Valentino Rossi
years class two
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission. Umberto Guidoni
years old-friends temptation
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. Ugo Betti
years long generations
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards. Richard Dawkins
years mad justice
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
years twenties
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. Roger Ascham