Quotes About Years

I'll reason with him, Vito Corleone said. It was to become a famous phrase in the years to come. It was to become the warning rattle before the deadly strike.

Lo que guardo en la memoria de esos años son los autores que descubrí, los libros queridos que leí con esa voracidad con que uno se envicia de literatura a los dieciocho años!

I suppose that's because you have faith in the judicial system that will try us. Yes. I have faith that we will be found guilty and that we will be shot. Your faith will be rewarded. Why? It hasn't been for the last few years.

But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.

Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.

There are no antiquities in my case — not even an independent curl nor a bit of loose ivory. Her insipid years have been devoted to the ironmonger, and she is now as tempting a daughter of Eve as ever made a man's heart beat uneasy beneath his sword belt. She ought to have been a sort of relative of yours, Steinmark.

Because Nature always balances her books, the Sun lost some velocity in the transaction; but the effect would not be measurable for a few thousand years.

We both loved each other. But we never spoke of it. Kept it to ourselves. So passed our best years.

May my enemies, your enemies, and all enemies of the Jews have as many good years as we have profit out of dealing with hot Yiddish papers.

Samantha, before you go Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â Iris takes hold of both my hands, her face filled with concern. "Sweetie Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm sure you're doing what's best for you. But just remember, you only get your youth once." She looks at my hand, smooth against hers. "You only get these precious years once." "I'll remember." I bite my lip. "I promise." "Good." She pats my hand. "Off you go.

ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love— ORESTES: What are you asking? ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.

Many years have passed since OEDIPUS solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended the throne of Thebes, and now a plague has struck the city.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Unless an age too late, or coldClimate, or years damp my intended wing.

Sadly, though, America's role appears to come to an abrupt end before the final years of the end times.

we do not possess a single scriptural document written any less than twenty-one years after the crucifixion that purports to tell us anything about the historical life of Jesus of Nazareth! We then have to face the fact that, at the very least, there is absolute silence for twenty-one years.

He was reading the strange account of the two missionaries who have lately made such a figure in the newspapers. I suppose the whole account is just such another gross imposition upon the public as the man's gathering the people together to see him go into the quart bottle. "Men seven hundred years old!" And why not seven yards high? He that can believe it, let him believe it.

He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend.

A gift, she thought again, placing her mittened hand lightly on his leg, a gift to be able to know someone for so many years.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.