Fifteen Years Quotes - Page 4

• Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.

  Emily Carr

  Dog, Years, Rose

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• Muhammad era un príncipe; reunió a sus compatriotas a su alrededor. En pocos años, los musulmanes conquistaron medio mundo. Arrancaron más almas de falsos dioses, derribaron más ídolos, arrasaron más templos paganos en quince años que los seguidores de Moisés y Jesús en quince siglos. Muhammad fue un gran hombre. De hecho, habría sido un dios, si la revolución que llevó a cabo no hubiera sido preparada por las circunstancias.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesús, Ejército, Hombres

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", París, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), traducido por John Tolan en "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• Y debo decir esta noche que un motín es el lenguaje de los no escuchados. ¿Y qué es lo que América no ha escuchado? No ha oído que la situación de los negros pobres ha empeorado en los últimos doce o quince años. No ha oído que las promesas de libertad y justicia no se han cumplido. Y no ha oído que grandes segmentos de la sociedad blanca están más preocupados por la tranquilidad y el statu quo que por la justicia y la humanidad.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, America, Years

  "The Other America". Speech at Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968.

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• It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

  Will Rogers

  Years, America, Care

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.14, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• Mañana hace quince años me operaron a corazón abierto, un bypass quíntuple. Gracias a todos mis médicos. Gracias a ellos, en 15 años de vida he podido experimentar, bueno, reflujo ácido, pérdida de memoria a corto plazo y disfunción eréctil. Gracias por todo su trabajo. Es estupendo estar vivo.

  David Letterman

  Recuerdos, Corazón, Pérdida

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• Es probable que nuestros sentimientos no sean menos fuertes a los cincuenta que diez o quince años antes; pero han cambiado de objeto y se centran en perspectivas muy diferentes. A los cinco y treinta un hombre piensa en lo que es su propia existencia; cuando la madurez de la edad ha entrado en su otoño, se ve envuelto en la de los demás. La pérdida de la esposa o del hijo se hace entonces más deplorable, por ser imposible de reparar; porque ninguna nueva conexión puede devolvernos a la compañera de nuestros primeros años, ni una "nueva carrera" compensar aquella cuya carrera esperábamos ver correr.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Correr, Fuerte, Niños

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). "Lodore", p.45

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• I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean, Writing, Years

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• During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.

  Will Cuppy

  Home, Years, Elephants

  Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.43, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dog, Years, Whales

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• I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years.

  Kent Hovind

  Years, Fifteen, Taught

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• Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Years, Atheism, Done

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• If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

  e. e. cummings

  Fighting, Years, Feelings

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• A finales de los años setenta, cuando tenía quince años, me gasté hasta el último céntimo que tenía en el banco para cruzar el continente en un avión 747 hasta Brandon (Manitoba), en lo más profundo de las praderas canadienses, para presenciar un eclipse total de sol.

  Douglas Coupland

  Años, Eclipse De Sol, Quince

  Douglas Coupland (2015). "Generación X: Cuentos para una cultura acelerada", p.9, Hachette UK.

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• Aprendí a pilotar aviones a los quince años porque uno de mis profesores pensó que sería mejor piloto que rapero.

  Killer Mike

  Profesor, rapero, años

  Entrevista con Eric Ducker, believermag.com. Julio de 2014.

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• You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Motherhood, Years, Daddy

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Moving, Fighting

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• Consumir drogas no me ayudó a jugar, lo único que hizo fue colgarme durante unos quince años.

  Joe Pass

  Years, Play, Drug

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• Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open." After 40 plus confirmations over a two-week period - yes, more than 40 - I became thoroughly convinced this verse was both a promise and a weapon for me. I have since used the verse hundreds of times throughout America - in all 50 states and in Washington DC - to open and close spiritual doors for the Lord.

  Hojas holandesas

  Spiritual, Keys, Doors

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• A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.

  Grace Paley

  Baby, Children, Crazy

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• I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Taken, Years

  "Un conocedor de nubes, un meteorólogo de caprichos: Entrevista de The Rumpus con Paul Auster". Entrevista con Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. 16 de noviembre de 2009.

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• La edad media de una modelo es de quince años. Me parece una locura. Y qué confusión para los hombres; dicen: "Bueno, se supone que me atrae esa imagen" -como si estuviera diseñada para eso- "pero es una niña de quince años". Creo que es algo muy confuso para todas las personas implicadas.

  Laura Benanti

  Chica, Loca, Hombres

  Fuente: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Me gustaría decir que dispongo de un software que me permite modelar mundos con un alto grado de verosimilitud científica. También me gustaría medir 1,90 y llevar quince años reinando como Emperador de Europa. La pura verdad es que, más allá del nombre del personaje y de un largo historial de hacer que mi propio cuerpo cubra distancias, hice muy poco en cuanto a investigación específica.

  Robert Reed

  Distancia, Carácter, Pasado

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• He pasado quince años de mi vida luchando por nuestro derecho a ser libres y hacer el amor cuando sea, donde sea... Y me estás diciendo que todos esos años de lo que significaba ser gay está mal... y que soy un asesino. ¡Nos han oprimido tanto! ¿No recuerdas cómo era? ¿No ves lo importante que es para nosotros amar abiertamente, sin escondernos y sin culpa?

  Larry Kramer

  Lucha, Gay, Años

  Larry Kramer (2000). "The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me: Two Plays", p.97, Grove Press

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