Adrien Brody Quotes, Dad Quotes, Years Quotes

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrien Brody Quotes , Dad Quotes , Years Quotes

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Years Quotes , Contentment Quotes

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Death Quotes , Years 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Years Quotes

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Spring Quotes , Years Quotes

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Younge Quotes , Fall Quotes , Years Quotes

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Average Quotes , Years Quotes

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Years Quotes , Long Quotes

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Years Quotes , Perfection Quotes

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lying 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Positivity Quotes , Years Quotes

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Country 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Each year, more people want to become artists.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Artist Quotes , Years Quotes

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Together Quotes

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Years Quotes , Mind 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Years Quotes

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Years Quotes , Church Quotes

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Years Quotes , Europe Quotes

I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Years Quotes