Quotes about years
years poison have-faith
Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
years drawing car
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design. Alec Issigonis
years theatre villa
Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994 Alec Guinness
years two long
With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year. Alberto Salazar
years giving training
I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
years finals answers
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different. Albert Einstein
years four honey
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
years jail three
Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard. Alger Hiss
years reason-why great-depression
I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year. Alfred P. Sloan
years organization assets
Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.
years tuesday mind
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. Alfred Russel Wallace
years acting suitcases
I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. Alfred Molina
years matrimony thrive
It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. Alfred Lord Tennyson
years europe fifty
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
years trying sometimes
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right. Alex Chilton
years waiting drug
Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
years law different
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles. Alex Flinn
years trying standards
I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago. Alex Ferguson
years trophies manchester-united
There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.
years might next
One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else. Alec Baldwin
years two mountain
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades. Aldo Leopold
years people research
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder. Aldous Huxley
years space prejudice
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
years people majority
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
years trying statistics
I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
years want life-is
The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
years nine firsts
If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.
years fifty knows
Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
years waiting earth
There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!
years guy wanted
Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry. Ali Larter
years clothes wake-up
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs. Ali MacGraw
years want
It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
years knowing important
We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date. Ali Smith