30 Years Quotes

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

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

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.