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Quotes About Years

a night twenty years ago and forever and but a prelude to the century, but a shadow of the far deeper descent into darkness that was yet to come….
~ Edward Whittemore
Still through the dusk of dead, blank-legended, And unremunerative years we search To get where life begins, and still we groan Because we do not find the living spark Where no spark ever was; and thus we die, Still searching, like poor old astronomers Who totter off to bed and go to sleep, To dream of untriangulated stars.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.
~ Elbert Hubbard
in reality it was much simpler. For at least ten years the God of childhood, already fairly weak, had been pushed aside like an old sick person, and I felt no need for the sanctity of marriage. The
~ Elena Ferrante
A lifetime is not so many years for a person to play with.
~ Elena Lappin
It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
~ Anthony Marais
The upshot is that new rights cannot be suddenly "discovered" years later in a document, unless everyone affected by the document had somehow overlooked an applicable provision that was there all along.
~ Antonin Scalia
Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
A person who does not feel suffocation by wearing mask over own mouth as a protection to anonymous virus is either a fool or a fake keeping double-face for years.
~ Anuj Somany
Oh, body, be held now by whom you love. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.
~ Aracelis Girmay
Over the next two hours, Acharya explained the ancient Indian teaching that a proper life must be lived in four stages—these are the ashramas. Ideally, ashramas last twenty-five years each.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.
~ Roy Hodgson
But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
~ Anthony Holden
Queens Park was amateur, so you do not get paid. You need to make a living, and for the first few years, when I was in the youth side, it was fine because I was still at school.
~ Andrew Robertson
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.
~ Mike Figgis
Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.
~ David Spade
When I took a couple of years to do the documentaries after I left 'American Morning' - what was I gone for, five years? - I didn't feel that I was floating under the radar.
~ Soledad O'Brien
You play against an opponent so much the numbers got to match at some point! I played against the Raiders six years straight pretty much. I played against them more than any team I've ever played.
~ Emmanuel Sanders
I've spent 35 years sitting on a motorbike in the rain. It's not had too good an effect on my bones.
~ Dave Myers
Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'
~ Scott Rudin
At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'
~ Diana Gabaldon
Even though over the last years I've had more and more success and I've been getting better on the tour, I think I've lived this kind of life as an athlete for many years already.
~ Casper Ruud
Tottenham was my first international club. I spent four glorious years there, and the fans were brilliant with me. I only have good memories.
~ Luka Modric
'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.
~ John Gregory Dunne