Quotes of: Freshman-year Keyword

When I was two, a year was half of my life. It must have felt like forever. But when I’m 99, a year will whiz by. Life will go fast, even if I probably go very, very slow.

$3.33

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

Afterworlds

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.

The Handmaid's Tale

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.

In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

My Sister's Keeper

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Fireworks are flowers in the garden sky. My love is like New Year’s Eve, only less predictable and more daily.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Colombians might live in one of best places in the world to grow coffee beans, yet their cups of coffee come from dehydrated granules in tiny plastic packages. This is the definition of tragedy.

Misspelled Paradise: A Year in a Reinvented Colombia

The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

Take Me to the Castle

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Twenty Years at Hull House

But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit---we will kill it.

Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Roger Malvin's Burial