Quotes about years
years yellow one-day
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years! Pierre-Auguste Renoir
years twenties painting
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
years medicine care
[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years. Phyllis Schlafly
years luxury silence
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources. Pico Iyer
years childhood way
Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.
years oil aquifers
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn. Philip Yancey
years grace serious
I was probably about 22 years old when I recommitted myself to get off the fence and go all in and get serious about my faith. That's really when I experienced God's love and His forgiveness and His true grace. Mike Fisher
years technological-change pace
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers. Mike Ferguson
years eight missing
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days. Mike Figgis
years luxury cost
Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. Mike Fitzpatrick
years networking social-network
Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.
years range-rover range
I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually. Mick Ralphs
years repeats
Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all...and pile on the years. Natsuki Takaya
years
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. Nathaniel Hawthorne
years next-day trials
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.
years may self-centered
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. Mother Teresa
years lasts crowns
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head. Victor Hugo
years organization prejudice
In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations. Vicente Fox
years new-day long
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness. Vernon L. Smith
years flying legends
Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this! Vernor Vinge
years light competition
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
years trying nonsense
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. Vernon Howard
years feet sensible
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
years two leader
I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one? Veronica Roth
years two imagination
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers. Richard Bach
years rewards hard
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
years land people
The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. Robert Frost
years long ease
How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come. Robert Blair
years childhood remember
There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. Robert Bly
years perfection long
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. Rita Levi-Montalcini
years messages behind-you
If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.
years fans followers
I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It's a way to connect with fans that wasn't available just a few years ago. Rita Ora
years aria heard
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. Rita Dove