H. G. Wells Quotes, Time Quotes, Years Quotes

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Years Quotes , Victory Quotes

Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Years Quotes , Different Quotes

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Years Quotes

Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.

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Tags : Alan Titchmarsh Quotes , Fall Quotes , Years Quotes

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Years Quotes , Frost Quotes

Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Years Quotes , Sick Quotes

There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Years Quotes

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Years Quotes

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Believe Quotes , Years Quotes

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

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My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

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Tags : Aeriel Miranda Quotes , Girl Quotes , Years Quotes

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Success Quotes , Years Quotes

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Heart Quotes , Years Quotes

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Years Quotes , Six Quotes