Top 1200 Two Years Ago Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.

At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least 5,000 years ago and has continued without interruption, has recorded all of the problems that humans face, and the methods and techniques to overcome those problems.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

Britain's Got Talent' isn't all that far from 'The Gong Show' 35 years ago, is it?

...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.

I don't take myself too seriously, as I think I used to years ago, when I was younger.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

I am very normal, and I keep all the things that I have since many years ago.

The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.

I came into the UFC five years ago and I was a kid. Now I'm becoming a man in there.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

Seems like only a year ago they were married nine years!

We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

Maybe 20 years ago I was all right looking, but certainly not now. I've lost it.

Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice every day." He said, "If I skip a day, I can hear it. If I skip two days, the conductor can hear it. And if I skip three days, the audience can hear it." Oh, yes, you have to keep that muscle firm.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

I discovered the Four Seasons brand many years ago. There is a certain magic.

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.