Years Quotes
25793 Years quotes by 11792 unique authors
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Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
— Henry Taube
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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these…
— John Burroughs
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[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
— Anton Chekhov
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
— E. O. Wilson
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
— Margaret Thatcher
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Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic…
— Stephen Hawking
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our…
— Carl Sagan
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If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.
— Jeff Bezos
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In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important…
— Peter Drucker
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The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures…
— Kevin Mitnick
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I…
— Bruce Sterling
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or…
— Douglas Engelbart
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition…
— Marvin Minsky
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Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and…
— Larry Page
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You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and…
— Russell M. Nelson
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We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
— Bernard Williams
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
— Winston Churchill
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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll…
— John Grisham
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This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the…
— Steve Perry
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Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
— Robert Breault
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
— Alexander Pope
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They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
— Rick Majerus
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