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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved to play hockey.
After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.
A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.
You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.
A lot of my opposition to President Obama's policies had behind them 5, 6, 7 years of bad policies that made America less safe in my regard.
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.
I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods, that’s when my life started.
I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
I think for the next 50 years I'm not going to be able to stop because of the light that you shine for me and so many millions of Americans.
I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
I tried to pick Nykyrian’s pocket last year. (Jana) And you let him live? (Kiara) I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian)
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.
People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.
What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.
Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.
Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.
Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.
Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.
I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.
Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.