Abraham Verghese Quotes, Children Quotes, Years Quotes

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Weather Quotes

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

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Tags : Aidan Turner Quotes , Years Quotes , Different Quotes

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Years Quotes

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Years Quotes , Civilization Quotes

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Sorry 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.

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

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life 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

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Years Quotes , Punishment Quotes

We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Doctors Quotes , Years Quotes

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Years Quotes , Thirteen Quotes

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Power Quotes , Years Quotes

I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes