“In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.” YearsStoriesLevelsHighestFranceRomantic LoveGallantryMinstrelsLancelotGuinevereTroubadours Author:Marilyn Yalom
“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.” WorldYearsEndsRunningLevelsSuccessfulFiveFive YearsEnthusiasticMomentumAdrenalineMost Amazing Author:Elton John
“I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.” WantYearsStatesTodayLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTenStandardsEuropeTwentiesIranStandards Of Living Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.” YearsHas BeensWarEndsUseAmericaFightingWaitingLevelsSecretPlansMediaFoolTerribleWeaponsLowsDrawsShotsSightCriticsIraqBritishGermanyJapanWarningPilotsIrrationalPearlsSaddamHarborsSanctionsLow LevelInformingWar Plans Author:John Leo
“Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.” IfsWayNeedsYearsChildrenLostLevelsSupportForeverWifeInvolvedPeriodsOur ChildrenIntimatePrimitiveFatherhoodInvolvementCaretaking Author:Augustus Napier
“I physically feel very fit. I’m very motivated to keep on playing on a very high level. I’m going to try to use these years in front of me to fight for the number one of the world and fight for the biggest titles.” WorldFeelsTryingYearsUseFightingSportsLevelsNumbersFrontsFitTitlesMotivatedHigh Level Author:Novak Djokovic
“Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).” IfsNeedsGivingYearsLittlesEndsForceSpaceLevelsEffortAttentionAirFiguresNeededEnginesRelianceRocketsUnwillingDeadlineAir Force Author:John McCain
“Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.” PeopleYearsBelieveMaySaidRunningWaterLossLevelsCompanyMillionsStudyDollarsEnvironmentalPlanningLakesRegionsFourthEngineersExpandingRestrictionSuburbsShortageWithdrawalIllinoisShippingGreat LakesFourth Year Author:Timothy Egan
“In the beginning, I thought that women needed protection, on a style level, to have the right impact to let them realize their desire for success. Now, many years later, women no longer need a masculine uniform. Women have changed.” NeedsYearsDesireRealizingLevelsStyleChangedNeededImpactProtectionUniformsMasculineDesire For Success Author:Giorgio Armani
“World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.” MenWorldYearsLongWarJobsFightingSocialLevelsFeminismTeachingHe ManLong TimeEnjoyedWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFactoriesWorld War I Author:Margaret Drabble
“People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.” PeopleYearsMatterUsedWaterLevelsNiceAirTreeDrinkingAcceptableHugReally NiceDrinking Water Author:Robin Williams
“It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.” ThinkingGivingTryingYearsStillsWould BePastGirlLevelsAdviceChangedBandToughGlassesRadioCoveredRoutesCeilingsGlass Ceiling Author:Joan Jett
“I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.” PeopleWorldYearsHumorFunnyLevelsRoomsComedyMinesSevenFootballerScottish Author:Frankie Boyle
“An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.” IfsKnowsYearsMayPoliticalChoicesPoliticsLeftLevelsPeriodsAccountsNeighborTyrannyRulersLiableAnnualsMagistratesUsurpationMisconduct Author:Clinton Rossiter
“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?” FeelsYearsMadeThreePerfectLevelsBusinessCompanyEconomicActivityPassionateListsCirclesOur FamilyResolutionNew YearCornerstonesNew Years ResolutionMirroringFeels Just Author:James C. Collins
“I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.” YearsHardWould BeKidsWantedGuyLevelsCollegeHard WorkLateLeagueSeniorStoppingSenior YearNever Stopping Author:Kevin Martin
“Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.” YearsTwoRememberPassionThreeNextGamesSportsLevelsGrowing UpGrowingBasketballSoccerHockeyThree YearsNext LevelThree Year OldsPlaying Basketball Author:Dwight Howard
“For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.” KnowsYearsFeelingsYoungCertainBitsInterestingLevelsTwentiesAccumulationInteresting ThingsReally Interesting Author:Christoph Waltz
“Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.” YearsCareLevelsMillionsGroupsConditionsEconomistIndigenousClinicalsInjection Author:Malcolm Fraser
“In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.” PeopleIfsYearsFactsUseBodySeemsLevelsStressAddAlcoholYour BodySubstitutesMarijuanaTemperatureTobaccoCannabisBody TemperatureStress Levels Author:Jack Herer
“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.” YearsHumansStillsDifferentProblemPastUsedDiesTurnsFoundSpaceLevelsPathFashionMirrorsFinalsTriumphTragicMatureIdleVagueVersusTime And SpaceVansTwistedMotorCartsMazesArchesDifferent LevelsMulesTacklingNarrow PathBreaking Away Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.” FeelsYearsSelfWholeFactsSpiritualEnergyProcessLevelsCreativeEventsRight NowHighestYears AgoInspiredConnectedBillionsDrivingAuthenticityRecognitionImpulseCreative ProcessFourteenAuthentic Self Author:Andrew Cohen
“It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.” KnowsYearsMomentsHappensLevelsExistenceRight NowHarderFaultsDetailsMundaneCellular Author:Alan Ball
“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsHumansLooksStillsIdeasMomentsAblePastBornLossLevelsFictionTalkingHappenedDyingMinesYears AgoIntelligentScience FictionLaysShakesCompellingOrganismsNever QuitFiction WritersHyperFacetious Author:Robert Reed
“It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.” YearsTwoIdeasFightingThreeFunLevelsCreativeBudgetsThree YearsConstipation Author:Matt Stone
“Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.” YearsDifferentSelfSpiritualFormCultureNamesLevelsMeditationTraditionDisguiseGlimpseInterdependenceInterconnectednessDifferent Names Book:Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy Source: Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy
“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.” IfsYearsHappensTogetherNextLevelsStreetsLandPolicyWallHigherTenProgramHollywoodHealOur FamilyCandidatesLegislationIrrelevantRenaissanceWhatever HappensHigher LevelSilicon Author:Oliver DeMille