Seven Years Quotes

• Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

  Plato

  Truth, Men, Order

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

  Walter Scott

  Years, Use, Seven

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.240

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• Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

  Brad Pitt

  Long, Wish, Shame

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• We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Inspirational, Karma, Worry

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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• Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Years, Space

  Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.29

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• I think seven years is a great time to end a series.

  Daniel Palladino

  Thinking, Years, Seven

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

  John Wesley

  Writing, Years, Shame

  'Journal' 1 September 1778

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• Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

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• It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

  Robert Orben

  Years, Wife, Awful

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• You have all this stuff going on in your head, like, 'I can't believe seven years has gone by, and I'm going to miss all these people.' And I'm like, 'Oh, by the way, Mick Jagger is to my right, and I just danced a waltz with him.' So there's that.

  Kristen Wiig

  Believe, Years, People

  "Kristen Wiig: Riot Girl". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.marieclaire.com. July 10, 2012.

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• After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Disappointment, Lying, Moving

  "Lisa Edelstein Quitting 'House,' Report Says", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

  Alicia Vikander

  Sleep, Wings, Years

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• Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Mean, Years, People

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• Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

  Fred Melamed

  Christmas, Boys, Years

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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• But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

  Shelley Duvall

  Past, Years, Acting

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• I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

  Bill Mumy

  Writing, Years, Albums

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• I was 32 years old, and I've changed my mind. And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending too much time talking about gun laws against law- abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.

  Chris Christie

  Gun, Talking, Years

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• This is a president [Barack Obama] who came into office in 2008 with a big majority in the House and with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because of his policies and his conduct in office, seven years later, we have our largest majority in the House since 1928, and we have a majority in the Senate and we have 31 of the 60 governorships.

  Chris Christie

  Years, Office, House

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

  Bo Derek

  Horse, Years, Racing

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.

  Billy Joel

  Thinking, Years, Listening

  "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

  Tim Reid

  Years, Once Upon A Time, Seven

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• I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, People, Want

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• They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

  Vinton Cerf

  Dog, Business, Years

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