Quotes about years
years ideas roots
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian. Jude Wanniski
years long feelings
I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs. Judi Dench
years law names
The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'. Jude Law
years people champion
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. Jude Law
years humanity trying
As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard. Josh Brolin
years three bed
I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years. Klaus Kinski
years sweat two
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and how puny the people; a Norway of two million provincial souls and a mortgage bank to help feed them! What was life worth at such a rate? You elbowed yourself ahead in the sweat of your face for a few mortal years, only to perish all the same, all the same! Knut Hamsun
years lasts veils
[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
years four hills
Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill. Murray Walker
years good-times logic
Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad. Murray Rothbard
years law people
Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that. Myles Munroe
years knowing heaven
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. Moliere
years cities rivers
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians. Mohsin Hamid
years pakistan way
So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically. Mohsin Hamid
years two numbers
Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago. Mohsin Hamid
years realizing easy
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom. Milos Forman
years two looks
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction... Milton Friedman
years nfl judging
I said all along, you judge your quarterback in his third year. Mike Shanahan
years two people
It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget. Mike Thompson
years two league
I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year. Mike Schmidt
years lasts republican
I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years. Mike Curb
years earth touched
In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives. Mike DeWine
years two needs
Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. Nathan Deal
years nineteen scar
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. J. K. Rowling
years firsts six
The first story I finished was when I was six years old. J. K. Rowling
years potters six
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. J. K. Rowling
years two world
I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. Ivan Lendl
years made
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years. Ivan Lendl
years three four
There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of. Guillermo del Toro
years eight made
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made Guillermo del Toro
years today make-me-happy
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. Greg Iles
years two numbers
When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members. Greg Lake
years people buzz
I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again. Greg Kinnear