Quotes about years
years new-work revival
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals. Renee Fleming
years numbers childhood
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last. Rene Descartes
years hussein victim
The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years. Raymond T. Odierno
years needs impatient
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer. Thornton Wilder
years people gazing
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
years church three
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged. Thomas Paine
years purpose debt
The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.
years intellectual progress
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross. Thomas Huxley
years names long
It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus. Thomas Dolby
years generations stones
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. Thomas Browne
years world six
The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.
years gravestone forty
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
years land cities
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity. Timothy Egan
years issues four
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue. Tim Yeo
years dvds people
Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to Leverage every year weve been doing it. Timothy Hutton
years mushrooms psychology
I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology. Timothy Leary
years vision peers
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.
years belief prison
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. Samir Geagea
years government police
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. Samantha Power
years people flying
I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people. Rupert Everett
years names people
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside. Rumi
years world today
The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today. Tom Peters
years chance employed
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
years cities two
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees. Tom Robbins
years racing trying
I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out. Tom Kristensen
years careers acting
I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing." Tom Ellis
years history liberty
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. Tom G. Palmer
years play evil
What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard? Tom Felton
years ideas people
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
years taught years-ago
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. Tom Bergeron
years trying rest-of-your-life
You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years. Todd Edwards
years guy body
Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old. Todd McFarlane
years play drawing
I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it. Todd Haynes