Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Flower Quotes, Years Quotes

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Years Quotes

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Years Quotes , America Quotes

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

In The End, It's Not The Years In Your Life That Count. It's The Life In Your Years. In The End, It's Not The Years In Your Life That Count. It's The Life In Your Years.

9 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Life Quotes , End Quotes , Years Quotes

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Years Quotes

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , New Year Quotes , Years Quotes

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Years Quotes , Mentor Quotes

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Song Quotes , Years Quotes

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Fire Quotes , Years Quotes

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Writing Quotes , Years Quotes

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Years Quotes , Battle Quotes

I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Iran Quotes , Years Quotes

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Years Quotes , Fleeting Quotes

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Years Quotes , Essence Quotes

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Death Quotes , Years Quotes

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Science Quotes , Years Quotes