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“It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.”

Giving Years Matter Hard Facts Able Responsibility Periods Giving Up Research Productive Matter Of Fact Administrative

Author:George Andrew Olah

“I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.”

Years Careers Periods Lows Aspect Years Ago

Author:John Otway

“In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.”

People Years Firsts War America Fashion Periods Cost Europe Jew Israel Eras Posts Spite Southern Eastern Ukraine Unprecedented Poland Post War Southern Africa

Author:Denis Fahey

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.”

Years Has Beens Stills Two Government President Wife Middle Return Honor Periods Promise My Wife East Administration Two Years Middle East I Promise Unprecedented

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.”

Years Long Wanted Fantasy Style Periods Horror Years Ago Theme Get Back Exploring

Author:Dario Argento

“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

People Feels Years Humans Lasts Spirit Lost Bits Opinion Periods Lows Champion Optimist Human Spirit

Author:Jude Law

“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

Years Play Bigs Kids School Young Four Feet Periods Six High School Adults Yeah Lawyer

Author:Jason Segel

“Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.”

Knows Feels Years Mind Grief Vision Worst Dad Periods Losing Seven My Dad Eight Worst Things Old You Losing Him

Author:Richie Sambora

“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”

Want Should Writing Years Made Problem Action Boys Roles Watches Hero Periods Action Heroes

Author:James Mangold

“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”

Ifs Men Years May Order Next Asks Plans Periods Thousand Draws Safety Reasonable Thousand Years Definite Next Day

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.”

Years Firsts Made States Lasts United United States Progress Months Periods Percent First Time Europe Areas Trade Cents Last Year Asia Corresponding Foreign Trade

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.”

Years Littles Able Turns Bits Couple Periods Little Bit Hopefully

Author:Lydia Ko

“My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.”

Ifs Years Long Has Beens Ideas Bigs Process Differences Loss Periods Long Time Losing Weight Compare Weight Loss

Author:Ray William Johnson

“About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.”

World Years Heart Growth Millions Issues Periods Demand China Oil Around The World Developing Gas Consumption Crude Barrels Crude Oil Oil Consumption

Author:John S. Watson

“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”

People Writing Years Christian Speak Land Periods Jew Eras Centre Autonomous Birthplace

Book:The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

Source: The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

“And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.”

Feels Years Whole Feelings Four Player Periods Guitar Four Years Songwriters Representation Guitar Player

Author:John Frusciante

“For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America”

People Years Has Beens America Hours Class Millions Technology Middle Huge Periods Percent Increase Dollars Disappear Productivity Despite Middle Class Massive Wages Transfers

Author:Lindsey Graham

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”

Years Age Parent Example Youth Periods Adolescence Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Al Bernstein

“Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.”

Years Kind Memories Childhood Dad Periods My Dad Childhood Memories

Author:Lalah Hathaway

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.”

Years Light Periods Spring March Springtime Spring Poems Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.”

Knows Years Humans May Said Matter Bigs Turns Decision Results Careers Periods Prove Series Hinges Big Decisions Life Decision Small Decisions

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.”

Thinking Knows Years Would Be Next Morning Kings Periods Humorous Years Ago Unhappy Afternoon Monday Friday Gloomy Tuesday Wednesday So Sad Friday Afternoon Tuesday Morning

Author:Walt Kelly

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”

“In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know about stocks is exactly when they will up or go down. Over the long term, stocks generally rise at a nice pace. History shows they double in value every seven years or so. But in the short term, stocks are just plain wild. Over periods of days, weeks and months, no one has any idea what they will do. Still, nearly all investors think they are smart enough to divine such short-term movements. This hubris frequently gets them into trouble.”

“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.”

Years Lasts Generations Revolution Periods Marijuana Fifteen Effectiveness Fifteen Years

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.”

Years Stills Jobs Actors Forget Numbers Periods Lucky Lows Cameras Never Forget

Author:Emile Hirsch

“Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.”

Ifs Writing Years Young Three Acting Arms Periods Promise Weight Victim Seven Settling Mature Judged Platforms Unfortunate Rope Seven Years Young Writers Hangman Nooses

Book:Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise

“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”

Years War Church Periods Hundred Crisis Unity Broke Medieval

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

Trying Years Sometimes Would Be Lying Night Imagine Periods Odd Awake Being The Best Seventies Awake At Night

Author:Michael Dirda

“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.”

Years May Law Courses Cases Periods Constitution Court Faults Decades Reform Amendments Minimum Judicial Minimum Wage Constitutional Amendments Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”

“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”

Years War Three Periods Percent Direct Twenties Towns South Population Three Years Burned Exposure Korea North Korea Starvation Casualties South Korea

Author:Curtis LeMay

“Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results at all periods except when the general market itself is clearly in a selling range for investors. They show up to best advantage during the years in which the market remains in a relatively narrow and neutral area.”

Years May Shows Individual Process Results Security Periods Advantage Areas Remains Selling Range Analysis Investors Bargains

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.”

Years Periods Exciting Musical Opera Principal Orchestra Horns Great Music Metropolitan Year One

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.”

Years Two Fighting Three Black My Own Periods Stones Mess Gray Three Years

Author:Lee Krasner

“After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.”

“A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.”

Ifs Knows Years Kind Reason Play Music Pieces Periods Guitar Woods Violin Violinist Resonating

Author:Dave Genn

“Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.”

“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Should Years Firsts Long Two Important Principles Particular Periods Taxes Constant Related Steady Expansion Revenue Public Service

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.”

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”

Years Age Five Periods Battle Consequence Ultimate Five Years Helpful Sixty Continuing Colleagues Seventies Persuading Qualifying Ultimate Success

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“After a year of transformation Foster's Group sits at the doorstep of a period of sustained strong earnings growth.”

Years Strong Growth Groups Periods Transformation Earning Doorstep

Author:Trevor O'Hoy

“Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.”

Years Mean States Turns Interest Democracy Century Periods Areas Toms 18th Century Paine Tom Paine

Author:Fiona Shaw