Quotes about years
years choices important
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends. George Will
years europe bayonets
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.
years skills mind
[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.
years office training
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant. George Ryan
years age
Years do not always make age. George Sand
years bird tree
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would. George Saunders
years race feelings
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.
years way lists
I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that. Jenna Fischer
years world location
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
years reflecting-back people
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. Jeffery Deaver
years charity auctions
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. Jeffrey Archer
years firsts done
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
years white black
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
years chains biodiversity
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
years presidential political
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. Jeff Miller
years trying trends
I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi. Jean Pigozzi
years something-new five-years
Every five years, I decide to learn something new.
years cannes-film-festival people
People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. Jean-Luc Godard
years two half
I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability. Jean-Claude Juncker
years want membership
I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.
years parliament brussels
After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.
years legacy eras
Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions. George Bodenheimer
years waiting trying
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. George Burns
years exciting decided
This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.
years people littles
People expect too much of one year and too little of ten. George Bernard Shaw
years doctors meat
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
years twenties vegetarian
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
years europe islam
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
years two track
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good. Gelsey Kirkland
years two fiction
This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the Jeepster years and the Fiction years made into something new and bolder. Our spikiness and our indie-ness are coming through again with all the poppiness of the last two records. There's a lot of melody here and you can't cloak that whatever you do with it. This album is touched by our entire history, and hopefully sounds like our future too. Gary Lightbody
years games nfl
Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game" Gary Myers
years guitar acoustics
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. Gary Moore
years cost care
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs Gary Miller