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Quotes About Years

No treaty but trenches all quiet years to years home in no man's land.
~ David Levithan
I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker. This is how we welcome foreigners to our shores. Because we are so often frightened by living here, we are annoyed and offended when visitors fail to show the proper signs of terror. So we try to scare the living daylights out of them.
~ David Rakoff
Why, after all these years, do I still believe that expensive clothing signifies anything more than a disposable income, that tweed and cashmere actually bespeak refinement?
~ David Sedaris
We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts not breaths, in feelings not fingers on a dial. We should count time in heartthrobs; he most lives who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ David W. Blight
overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. *
~ David Weber
C'est ridicule. On ravale toutes ses larmes pendant des années et voilà qu'on pleure sans raison dans un salon d'essayage de Frank et Fils.
~ Yasmina Reza
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years
~ Yehudi Menuhin
I was completely unreachable, for the first time in years. It gave me an unexpected but not unpleasant sense of stillness, of being outside of time: it reminded me somehow of childhood.
~ Zadie Smith
However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
~ Belinda Carlisle
Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
I've been arguing with Dianne Feinstein for years.
~ Wayne LaPierre
I was at art school for five years.
~ Dave Myers
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.
~ Horace Walpole
In good years, defensive investors have to be content with the knowledge that their gains, although perhaps less than maximal, were achieved with risk protection in place, even though it turned out not to be needed.
~ Howard Marks
Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
~ Iain M. Banks
Reefs, [Charlie Vernon] points out, are nature's archives and historians. They are complex data banks that record evidence of environmental changes from millions of years ago up to the present.
~ Unknown
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
~ Ian Fleming
In the dying moments of the Happening, each knew themselves to have been touched by something quite precious and rare and extraordinary. Something that had been taken from them years and years before. Something that some of them had never known they could experience.
~ Unknown
Hace más de mil años, en oriente se escribía que "Antes el Sufismo era una realidad sin nombre: ahora es un nombre sin una realidad".
~ Idries Shah
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
~ Connie Willis
It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.
~ Craig Clevenger
950 years. After the flood, the lifespan
~ Unknown
Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.
~ Craig Johnson
I really didn't need a fed to tell me that," Dane muttered, aggravated. He'd been working as a cop for more than ten years. "We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.
~ Unknown