Quotes about year
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. Thornton Wilder
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. Thomas Paine
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. Thomas Browne
years gravestone forty
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Thomas Browne
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. Timothy Leary
years people wish
I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change. Thomas Schelling
years giving sacred
Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters our lives. God still speaks. He prompts. He guides. He blesses. He gives. Thomas S. Monson
years sacred speed
Times change; years speed by; but Christmas continues sacred. Thomas S. Monson
years fleeting spirit
As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always. Thomas S. Monson
years goal people
We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals. Thomas Sowell
years people emotion
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason. Thomas Sowell
years people liberty
Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?" Thomas Sowell
years two-year-olds government
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive. Thomas Sowell
years people income
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric. Thomas Sowell
years europe black
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks. Thomas Sowell
years play political
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell
years data games
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. Robert Metcalfe
years musical building
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments. Robert Moog
years suits six
I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady. Robert Mitchum
years young one-thing
One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year. Robert Menzies
years community accepted
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. Robert Huber
years numbers house
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. Robert Indiana
years two guy
I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating. Robert Irvine
years people classic
It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made. Robert Hamer