Alexander Pope Quotes, Years Quotes, Funeral Quotes

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Life Quotes , Years Quotes

What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Doors Quotes , Years Quotes

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Years Quotes , Example Quotes

We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

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Tags : Al Michaels Quotes , Running Quotes , Years Quotes

He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

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

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Years Quotes , Littles Quotes

As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Eight Quotes , Years Quotes

In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Eight Quotes , Years Quotes

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

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Tags : Adam Ferrara Quotes , Years Quotes , Funny Marriage Quotes

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Years Quotes , Two 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

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , New Year Quotes , Years 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

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Flower Quotes , Years Quotes