Years Quotes - page 2

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. (Paddy Ashdown)
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. View quote
Rosa Parks
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. View quote
Sophia Loren
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. View quote
Warren Buffett
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. View quote
Warren Buffett
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. View quote
Hans Frank
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. (Aldous Huxley)
But where are the snows of bygone years? View quote
François Villon
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. View quote
Albert Einstein
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. View quote
Albert Ellis
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. View quote
Harriet Tubman
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. View quote
Mary Pickford
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. View quote
John Updike
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. (John Lennon)
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. View quote
William Hazlitt
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. View quote
George Henry Lewes
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
📖 Years Proverbs