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“Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally.”
“Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste”
“Years of experience make you confident and practical. They make you accurately understand people and confidently judge them faster.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.”
“Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.”
“Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“Years of longing collapse into this one kiss. Everything I’ve held back, everything I’ve buried, surges to the surface. My hand rests on her cheek, fingers delicately brushing skin as velvety as I remember it from my dreams.”
Source: Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Years of many earthquakes preceded the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano.”
“Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.”
“Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.”
“Years of practice in mathematics hardwires a person's brain for subconscious solving of mathematical problems - this is how Srinivasa Ramanujan came up with most of his discoveries in mathematics. Years of practice in the study of human behavior hardwires a person's brain for the subconscious solving of the puzzle of human nature - this is how I come up with many of my insights on human cognition and behavior. There is no magic or supernatural intervention involved here. It’s just that, when you foster a forte in a specific activity, your brain keeps working on it, beneath the surface of your conscious awareness, even if you are consciously engaged in other activities or even if you are asleep.”
Source: All For Acceptance
“Years of practice kept the ironic tinge from her voice.”
Source: New Amsterdam
“Years of repression have built a dam around my tear ducts.”
Source: The Prince and the Thief
“Years of research show us that the less control a person feels over an aversive stimuli coming at them, the more likely they are to disengage. Complete loss of control over a sustained period of time can actually lead to depression. It then follows that giving the person a level of control over the situation reduce the stress - and perhaps restore the disengagement.”
“Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.”
“Years of strengthening my independence, perhaps believing on some level that my fate was to be forever solitary, had made me a strong and capable woman. I feared change. But did marriage demand a drastic change in my nature? No. Why should it? Strength of character wasn’t a flaw or an enemy to marital happiness. Yet I feared becoming a different person—a vulnerable, reliant, weaker person. Dompier had insisted change had already occurred in me to some degree. I did in fact feel susceptible emotionally around Thaddeus and yet without a total loss of myself. Is this what love did to people? Disarmed them with lures of peace and happiness? But if peace and happiness and companionship were indeed to be the outcome, why fight it?”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Years of therapy, of self-reflection, of swearing he’d changed, and here he was, falling into the same damned pattern.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?”
Source: Titus Groan
“Years pass by swiftly and the hope within me wanes and fades away like a branch cut off from a tree. Will I ever find you? Will my heart ever rest upon your chest and hear the sound of your heartbeat? Thankful to the Gods above that you exist after all and I have finally found you. Will the doubts within me be erased completely when my eyes gaze upon yours as I witness you in flesh? Will my hands ever feel your warmth and caress your skin? Will my mouth ever taste your lips and indulge on the juices that flow from it? Will my heart caper scamper triumphantly at the joy of finding you? As the doubts and fears within me are silenced to death? Will I meet you? I wonder.”
“Years passed and I hadn't really done much writing. Other than the fact that I'm constantly developing new shows, writing up proposals and stuff.”
“Years passed with nothing to show in a land once so enchanted that bees and butterflies slept safe in the blossoms after their nectar was gathered. Here was a place that defined beauty in petals and leaves, scent and sight, hue and touch.”
Source: The Forbidden Garden
“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
“Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.”
Source: Marius
“Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!”
Source: The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
“Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences.”
“Years start to pass by but our desire for each other does not
pass us by. The “spice” that he brings into my life remains as
peppery and savoury as ever. The beauty and warmth I bring to his life, remain as enlivening as ever. Together, we cultivate a loving
relationship that lights us both.”
Source: LOVE TOUCHES ONCE & NEVER LEAVES ...A Blooming & Moving Love Saga!
“Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.”
“Years teach us more than books.”
“Years were passing through the spaces between moments.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!
Ye shall grow a part
Of the laughing Sea;
Of the moaning heart
Of the glittered wave
Of the sun-gleam's dart
In the ocean-grave.
Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
From the heights above
To the depths below,
Where dread things move,
There is naught can show
A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown!
Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!”
“Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.”
Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering
“Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.”
“Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.”
“Yeast. The word comes to us through Old English, from the Indo-European root 'yes'- meaning boil, foam, bubble. It does all those things, and more. And would it not be the Egyptians, who construct the largest, most sophisticated buildings in the land, to also harness the tiniest microbe?
Of course, they know nothing of yeast. To them, it is magic.
They are called the 'bread eaters.' "Dough they knead with their feet, but clay with their hands," Herodotus wrote with derision. The Egyptians do not care. They understand their bread is from the gods, for king and peasant alike. They invent ovens to bake this new, breath-filled dough because it cannot be cooked like the flat breads they know first. They construct clay vessels to hold it. They watch it rise in the heat. They add butter and eggs and honey and coriander, and save soured dough from one batch to add to the next. They eat.
They live.”
Source: Stones For Bread
“Yeats decía que cuando uno tiene una disputa con el mundo, produce retórica; cuando tiene una disputa consigo mismo, produce poesía”
Source: Viajes con un mapa en blanco
“Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.”
“Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.”
“Yech," said Simon. "Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.”
“Yeeres know more then bookes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Yeh kisne kaha ke woh tujhe dil se chah raha hain
Woh kisi ko bhoolne ke liye tere pass aa raha hain”
Source: Sukoon
“Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.”
“Yeki bood, yeki nabood. Gheir az mehr hichi nabood.”
“Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.”
“Yelah, sebenarnya dugaan tu semua tak besar mana pun. Tapi di umur yang masih muda, kadang-kadang kita terlebih pandai nak membesarkan perkara yang kecik.”
Source: PAKAR
“Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you...but you slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”
Source: Poison Study
“Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.”
Source: Poison Study