Quotes with years

Quotes 701 till 720 of 988.

  • Doris Lessing The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Johnson The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Helen Hayes The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Robert Frost The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Buck Owens The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brigham Young The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
    First Vision Journal of Discourses 8:354. (March 3, 1861)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bill Bixby The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Barbra Streisand The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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