Quotes of: Years Keyword

A man can never be perfect in a hundred years; but he may become corrupt in less than a day.

Chinese

It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.

Dutch

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technologic...

How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism

If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it ...

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-fou...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Remembrance is acknowledging that a life was lived ... My father finally wrote out his memories for a reason. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real....

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-y...

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, i...

Ray Bradbury

A hundred years ago, , … a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away...

Michio Kaku

Struggle for justice invariably alters the base culture. So did the long Tamil Eelam struggle. Its crystallization was the Vanni society during the last years of LTTE. My four years experience in Vanni also gave me a unique opportunity to see firstha...

N. Malathy

Dr. Sam Loomis: I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with th...

Halloween

Eva: Haven't you ever wished you had somebody else around to play with? Kevin, 6-8 Years: No. Eva: You might like it. Kevin, 6-8 Years: What if I don't like it? Eva: Then you get used to it. Kevin, 6-8 Years: Just because you're used to something doe...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

[last title cards] Title card: In 1968, "At Folsom Prison" became one of the most popular recordings of all time, outselling even the Beatles. Title card: That same year, John and June married and settled into the lake home in Hendersonville. Two yea...

Walk the Line

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

Collected Poems in English and French

... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...

The Christmas Mystery

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Concentrated power is bad" "(name of chapter)

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic