Adrienne Rich Quotes, Time Quotes, Years Quotes

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Years Quotes

From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator - a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Reality Quotes , Years Quotes

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

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

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Change Quotes , Years Quotes

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Years Quotes , Discovery Quotes

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Years Quotes , Fleeting Quotes

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

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

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Years Quotes

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

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

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Years Quotes , Evil Quotes

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

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

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Years Quotes , Moments Quotes

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Years Quotes , Careers Quotes

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Determination Quotes , Years Quotes

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

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Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fire Quotes , Years Quotes