Quotes about year
years people might
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death. Terry Pratchett
years eight house
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
years enemy six
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
years world complicated
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
years magic world
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.
years design littles
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.
years car people
London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.
years tomorrow kind
I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor. Terry Crews
years lasts england
I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years. Terri Windling
years different thirty
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago. Terry Brooks
years nfl two
I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature. Terrell Davis
years together fifty
Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together. Terence McKenna
years people sacred
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
years games people
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
years progress psychedelic
There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
years long people
The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.
years style heirs
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
years two long
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
years strive unspeakable
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
years knowing guy
I'm definitely playing next year. That's my ace in the hole. It's a little hard to sit back and watch the guys [this season], but it's easier knowing I've got something to look forward to. Tedy Bruschi
years bullshit moments
It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11. Teju Cole
years spinning-plates background-noise
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. Temple Grandin
years cycling nerves
I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.
years ideas npr
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. Ted Koppel
years europe olympics
I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that. Taylor Phinney
years leader secret
I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders. Ted Haggard
years two enemy
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. Ralph Waldo Emerson
years stones spirit
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
years worry hundred
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
years soul cheerful
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
years enjoy non-stop
For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success. Shania Twain
years development today
Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development. Segolene Royal
years smokers
I was a smoker for about 20 years. Selma Blair