Warren Buffett Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Years Quotes

People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Positivity Quotes , Years Quotes

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

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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

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Light Quotes , Years Quotes

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

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The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

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It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

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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 year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

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Tags : A. J. Jacobs Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Years Quotes

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Food Quotes , Years Quotes

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Years Quotes , Joy Quotes

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Years Quotes , Imagination Quotes

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mean Quotes , Years Quotes