Top 1200 Last Few Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are.

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

I have been in the politics for the last 40 years. I became chief minister in 1995 and worked in the NDA and UPA. I have seen it all.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can't wait to put on when the weather starts to turn.

Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.

My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.

The last real job I had I was 16-years-old slinging fried chicken in my hometown of Naperville, Ill.

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime

Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that content would ever work as a business. It was impossible to raise any money, initial investments were $10,000, seldom $100,000. It is only over the last two or three years that we have started to see very large amounts of capital coming into the digital industry. That has created a lot more competition.

I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. Keep in mind, this ain't like the real world where you work somewhere and you can stay 40 years. Being able to see where you are going just a few years ahead is a pretty cool deal, and it doesn't happen too often in any sport, much less stock car racing.

This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.

Ian Smith thought his Rhodesia would last 1,000 years: it lasted less than 15.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Twenty-five years has been a good run. Boy bands like Boyzone don't get to last this long, usually.

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.

The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.

I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.

...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

The first audition I did was for 'Trapper John, M.D.' I was surprised to get the part, and then to have it last for seven years was a bonus.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.

I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I've been a pure vegetarian; I don't even take egg.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.