Quotes with years-old

Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 1807.

  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Mae West Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Burgess Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Janet Frame Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years......thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
    Source: Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Anita Roddick Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Barry Schwartz Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?
    Source: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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