Quotes about years
years people forever
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct. Haruki Murakami
years moments
It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
years months impossible
One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.
years next said
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
years eggs way-to-live
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?
years faults bigger
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
years matter
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
years firsts suits
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962. Hamish Bowles
years people support
The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets. Hamid Karzai
years prejudice may
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. Gustav Stresemann
years california america
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity. Gray Davis
years america age
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. Graydon Carter
years selling nickels
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers. Gordon Smith
years wade fascination
I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them. Gordon Parks
years restaurants hard
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago. Gordon Ramsay
years heaven plot
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave. John Dryden
years green looks
He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
years bulls commodity
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. Jim Rogers
years today fossils
This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels. Jim Wallis
years iraq reform
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
years water cost
Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.
years long stripes
Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start. John Collison
years has-beens
There has been no warming over 18 years. John Coleman
years personality driven
I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy. John Cleese
years games people
It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.
years comedy forty
When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
years proud remember
You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old. John Brunner
years agriculture great-depression
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years. John Bright
years cities population
A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
years arrogant-person arrogance
Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself. John Bradshaw
years shining flesh
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. John Buchan
years eight wipe
No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
years hunger-and-poverty hunger-poverty
Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.