Quotes of Week - somelinesforyou

“ And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye. ”

- L. R. Powell

“ Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. ”

- Peter Singer

“ Six years — six little years — six drops of time. ”

- Matthew

“ A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. ”

- Bible

“ Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. ”

- Roger Staubach

“ It's going to be a great weekend, a lot of memories. My four years and the four years in the city. ”

- Mark McGwire

“ Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. ”

- T. Boone Pickens

“ The tables are decorated by Jeannie Winslow, and the colors will be yellow and blue this year. She has been doing the decorating for the luncheon for 20 years. ”

- Jackie Robinson

“ Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. ”

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

“ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away. ”

- Bible

“ Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ You think back 10 years, how he had no selectivity at all, and then you watch how he's matured over the years. ”

- Joe Torre

“ My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. ”

- Walter Matthau

“ Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. ”

- W. N. Taylor

“ And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. ”

- Bible

“ It isn't the hours you put in your work that count, it's the work you put in the hours. ”

- Evan Esar

“ It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ”

- John Dryden

“ I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work… ”

- William Faulkner

“ I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. ”

- Totie Fields

“ It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. ”

- Edgar Guest

“ This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born — a hundred million years — and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together… ”

- Mark Twain

“ Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ An employer of labor who should see to it that each man and woman working for him got a solid month of holiday in the course of the year, would, we feel convinced, make money by it in the long run; for there is hardly an occupation, from sawing wood to writing poetry, in which the mental state of the workman does not influence the result; and wherever the mental factor exists the man will do more and better work in eleven months than in twelve. ”

- William James
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