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Years Quotes by George Orwell
- The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist…
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
- She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
- For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
- they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my…
- What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
- Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by…
- On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the…
- We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.…
- The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the…
- I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz