Quotes by Years You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off. A. A. Gill world years travel We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity. A. B. Simpson suffering humanity years We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning. A. D. Coleman real trying years Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman white spring years Now, of my threescore years and ten, A. E. Housman wearing-white twenties years It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. A. E. van Vogt writing years ideas I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. A. E. van Vogt science fiction years I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn. A. J. Jacobs fans writing years The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones. A. J. Jacobs compassion practice years A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage. A. J. Jacobs fighting real years The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution. A. J. Jacobs organization europe years Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures. A. J. Jacobs disease health years News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers. A. J. Liebling long years school In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. A. J. P. Taylor political heaven years One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine. A. J. P. Taylor wine drinking years I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return. A. N. Wilson wise men years If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. A. N. Wilson writing book years My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film. A. O. Scott adults wrath years A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist. A. P. Herbert political-opinions men years Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without A. R. Ammons imagine hundred years 1234567891011»