Five Years Quotes - Page 25

• Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

  Malorie Blackman

  Kids, Wry Smile, Years

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• The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Common Humanity

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• I have peanut M&M's up there." "Not my style" "Raisinets." "Feh." "Sam Adams." Thor narrowed his eyes. "Cold?" "Downright icy." Thor crossed his arms over his chest and told him self he was not pouting like a five-year-old. "I want Milk Duds.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Self, Years

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• Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moon, Glasses, Hands

  J. K. Rowling (2004). “Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa”, Bloomsbury Children

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• If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations—trust me, your expression is congratulations enough.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Daughter, Congratulations, Expression

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

  Anais Nin

  Laughter, Fall, Wine

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• Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

  Doris Lessing

  Beautiful, Taken, Years

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• My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

  Russell Brand

  Sweet, Boys, Thinking

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. I owe you everything, and if you cannot believe I have empathy, perhaps you might at least believe I know honor--honor, and debt--

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Past, Years

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• Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

  Ian Mcewan

  School, Years, Names

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• I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and the end eventually. I wake up. The terrible dreams are the good dreams. In my terrible dreams, everything is fine. I am still with the company. I still look like me. None of the last five years ever happened. Sometimes I'm married. Once I even had kids. I even knew their names. Everything's wonderful and normal and fine. And then I wake up, and I'm still me. And I'm still here. And that is truly terrible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Kids, Years

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• For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Years, Jem

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Years, Wake Up

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games (Movie tie-in)”, p.10, Scholastic UK

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• In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, Age, Brutality

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.153, A&C Black

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• I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, School, Eye

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• Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Years, Mind, Insane

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

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• New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn’t. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

  Bill Maher

  Baby, Teenager, Animal

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.221, Penguin

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• I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Tired, Years

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• I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Years, Would Be

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Graduation, College, Men

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

  Alan Kay

  Education, Teacher, Couple

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• One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Learning

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• Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

  James D. Watson

  Science, Talking, Years

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

  Alfred E. Perlman

  Change, Years, Looks

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• Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Years, Want

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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