Years Quotes - Page 33

• Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Inspirational, Funny, Long

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• She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Couple, Opportunity, Views

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.354, Macmillan

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• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Lying, Believe, Suicidal

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• [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Kings, Israel, Agreement

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• I was a cheerleader for nine years.

  Betsey Johnson

  Cheerleading, Nine, Cheerleader

  "Betsey Johnson’s Own Personal ’Style For The Ages’". Interview with Diane Roncone, www.hamptons.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after one year, which I believe to this day is unprecedented. You have to understand, no one went to the soccer games. In fact, I believe part of my duties as a cheerleader was to bake brownies for the team.

  Kathy Griffin

  Soccer, Cheerleading, Team

  Kathy Griffin (2009). “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.

  Billy Sunday

  Inspiration, Suffering, Church

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Dirty, Mean, Over You

  "Introducing a course on calculi" by Edsger Dijkstra, August 30, 1995.

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• Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, Government, History

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• Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.

  Julius Streicher

  History, Holocaust, Nazism

  "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, Australia, World

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• Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.

  Miller Williams

  Writing, Dramatic Situations, Drunk

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• Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

  Horace

  Eye, Literature, Crafts

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• I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

  Anton Chekhov

  Reading, Editors, Drunk

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• I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Two

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.57, Chartwell

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• Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

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• His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

  John P. Marquand

  Father, Son, Pathos

  JOHN P. MARQUAND (1963). “THE LATE GEORGE APLEY”

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• I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sleep, Bed, Needs

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 2, ch. 3

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• When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Baby, Cousin

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• I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek the full political and legal equality of women with men. However, I disagree with many of my fellow feminists as an equal opportunity feminist, who believes that feminism should only be interested in equal rights before the law. I utterly oppose special protection for women where I think that a lot of the feminist establishment has drifted in the last 20 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

  James Dobson

  Father, Eras, Gone

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  Lorde

  Fashion, Brother, Dad

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• You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Crush, Passion

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.369, University of Illinois Press

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• There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, War, Two

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• Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Song, Children, War

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