Quotes about years
years drunk want
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore. Chester Bennington
years seven-months bridges
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods. Cheryl Strayed
years grace age
You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
years two fellowship
I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund. Chen Ning Yang
years forever fifty
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks. Cher
years ten five
To me marriage is for five or ten years
years role-models roles
I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.
years may infamous
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. Charlotte Lennox
years leader style
Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history. Charlotte Bunch
years two desperate
I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. Charlotte Gainsbourg
years atheism done
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
years careers ideas
I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line." Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor. Charlize Theron
years whole-year whole
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
years heaven spheres
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. Charles Lamb
years religion may
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock. Chanakya
years drink said
A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down. Charlaine Harris
years circles people
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone. Chaka Khan
years tree gone
For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic. Chang-Rae Lee
years bills lasts
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. Chaka Fattah
years minorities share
If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds. Charlie Munger
years clockwork ifs
If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?
years oil vices
Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.
years opposites today
The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.
years looks buying
A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.
years imagine periods
One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.
years risk alternatives
It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired."
years culture banking
The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.
years ideas
Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year
years people president
A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."
years long different
Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result.
years today lasts
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today. Charles Saatchi
years decision today
It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do. Charles Rangel
years giving stealing
It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals. Beverley Nichols