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Quotes About Years

David Reid and Myra Godwin are talking after the funeral of her ex-husband in Alma-Ta. Reid was an old lover of Myra: "There was still a genuine affection between them, attenuated though it was by the years, exasperated though it was by their antagonism. Reid had neer been a man to let enmity get in the way of friendship.
~ Ken MacLeod
La edad física es incuestionable como forma de medir el número de años que han transcurrido desde nuestro nacimiento, pero es puramente relativa en lo que se refiere a la salud y a la calidad de vida.
~ Ken Robinson
All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.
~ Kenneth Boulding
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
~ byron lord iv
the answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior.
~ Caleb Carr
As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.
~ Cameron Dokey
He had wasted the span of my entire life.
~ Cameron Dokey
Long years, and so many of them that, one by one, their hopes for a child began to pack their bags and depart.
~ Cameron Dokey
Media changes—human nature does not. Violence and predation have been a part of human life for millions of years.
~ Gavin de Becker
When it was Hearts turn, she related a vision she had: that River hadn't wanted to be born, preferring to stay with God in heaven. God had convinced him to go, and they haggled over how long, settling on twenty-three years.
~ Gavin Edwards
An attorney named Albert Fink, who years later would defend Al Capone, would tip his hat whenever he passed a husky he particularly respected, and
~ Gay Salisbury
And I know that the idea of an evil rogue Librarian must sound like some kind of rumour. The sort of rumour which gets passed down through the years to frighten the novices.
~ Genevieve Cogman
She had no remembrance of my name, or the Seraskiers'—I asked, with a beating heart. We had left no trace. Twelve short years had effaced all memory of us!
~ George du Maurier
Growth rings in trees are Nature's way of digitizing time.
~ George Dyson
In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
~ George F. Will
But this is a wretched subterfuge, by which some people still allow themselves to defer the issue, and think that by a little fiddling with words they have solved that difficult problem on the solution of which thousands of years have worked in vain, and which therefore can hardly be found so completely on the surface.
~ Immanuel Kant
Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that's God's secret and what I wouldn't give to know it.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
After his liver transplant in April 2009, visionary Apple CEO Steve Jobs lived two and a half years
~ Ira Byock
For years he had been incapable of tears.
~ Iris Murdoch
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
~ Isabel Allende
That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.
~ Isabel Allende
El que es un miserable no se vuelve generoso con los años...se vuelve más miserable.
~ Isabel Allende
I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
~ Isabel Allende
Jaime was convinced that after so many years of struggle the Socialists were finally going to win. This he attributed to the fact that the people had become conscious of their needs and their own strength.
~ Isabel Allende