Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

I went abroad when I was 20, three years at Chelsea, a big club. Then two years at Madrid.

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.

I played Sunday junior football for 6-7 years. Then I was at Stansted for two years between 19 and 21.

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.

Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn't have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would sleep in broken-down motels and I would fight the next day. Just me and her.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

With every case from years ago there should be lessons learned.

I had directed some tele films years ago.

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Life is short. I'm years old. I've got years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a year and -- using them -- I wrote the first draft of The Thieves of Ostia in two weeks. I go back to his teachings before each new book I write. Each time I study Truby, I learn something new.

I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an artist. And the idea of identifying as someone who is just living and existing and making objects or paintings-somehow I moved away from that years and years ago.

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

My life started being awesome five years ago.

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

Everything that we [with Shindzo Abe] are talking about has come to us as a result of the events of 70 years ago. In some way or other, during these 70 years we have been involved in some kind of dialogue on the issue, and that includes the conclusion of a peace treaty.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

I'm a much better coach than I was six years ago.

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I'm so tired of all that teeny-bop stuff. It was years ago. So twee. I'm not into all that.

I don't see the violence stopping, from the L.A. riots 25 years ago to the Baltimore riots from 2015 to today - at least, not until a cop goes to jail. Until someone gets 30 to 50 years - something substantial - I really don't think it'll stop.