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Quotes About Years

small metal wheels; retrieval was messy and tricky and its marks remained for many years as a monument
~ Unknown
That even now, even after all the years of dreaming, of wanting, she is not Tristan, and she is not Jill, and she is not anyone who can recklessly seize unexpected opportunities.
~ Unknown
Brown eyes met brown but Aoife's were cold, igneous, compressed by years of hard living.
~ Nicola Griffith
When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.
~ Unknown
old Aunt Mary." Who at last had drifted the final distance to her reward. She had lived over eighty years—had come over from Africa, people said.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Long years of unhappiness cause a Person worse degradation than a fatal illness.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years.
~ Unknown
Through the years I've become used to sorrow: There was not one spring I didn't leave behind The flowers.
~ Ono no Komachi
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories
~ Orhan Pamuk
Tahun lalu tak terjadi apa-apa Tahun sebelumnya pun tak terjadi apa-apa Dan tahun sebelum tahun sebelumnya juga tak terjadi apa-apa.
~ Osamu Dazai
You are young enough! — and yet, I don't know; it is a popular fallacy that time counts by years. One is old according to the style of one's life, not the length of it.
~ Ouida
Dubai was so special to me, Javi. You're special to me." "Being close to you like this after all these years...The way you make me feel...I want to get closer to you, and that scares me.
~ Pamela Clare
Pru," he began lamely, "I think we need to talk about the past, to talk about what happened between us." "Not today," she told him firmly. "There are things that need to be said," he insisted. "Perhaps so, but they have waited eight years, I don't think it's essential that we delve into them immediately, just because it is suddenly convenient for you.
~ Unknown
In looking back over the years I wouldn't go so far as to say I have never been brave, but most of the things for which I had been given credit for bravery were nothing but daredevil stunts. I was trying to build up my own ego, trying to imitate the bravery of people I had read about or had been told about in the years gone by.
~ Unknown
We are born with a seed of selfhood that contains the spiritual DNA of our uniqueness-an encoded birthright knowledge of who we are, why we are here, and how we are related to others. We may abandon that knowledge as the years go by, but it never abandons us.
~ Parker Palmer
Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch." "It was I who caught her," Adam said softly. "It took years.
~ Patricia Briggs
We'd spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I'd won his respect. I'd had werewolves love me and hate me, but I'd never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.
~ Patricia Briggs
I see." Her troubled gaze focused on the lock. "And the key would be ... ?" "Gone," he said. "Lost years ago. Not that it matters none. I once seen His Grace kick in a brick wall 'cause he was in a mood for what lay on the other side.
~ Unknown
It was as if she had been terribly burned. As if the light of the fire that once charged her had run its course and now, years later, had left her extinguished. But wasn't that the nature of fire, he decided, once its fuel was done—to leave just the exhausted frame?
~ Unknown
Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.
~ Unknown
Because it can take two to even six years for a man to reach his PSA nadir after radiation, this initial "false rise" in PSA level after the hormonal therapy ends might lead to needless worry from a wrongful diagnosis
~ Unknown
Ojalá me quedaran cien años -dijo con voz muy baja-. Cien años que darte.
~ Patrick Ness
that could be interpreted as a rhetorical concession that the drug they had been selling all these years actually was, as critics had long maintained, dangerously susceptible to abuse.
~ Unknown
Do you know the saying Chan Vaen edan Kote ?' I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years... I don't know Kote ' 'Expect disaster every seven years,' he said.
~ Patrick Rothfuss