Thirty Years Quotes - Page 6

• Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

  Vaclav Havel

  Memories, Party, Adventure

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 4: "Public Enemy", 1990.

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• I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Wife

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.417, Penguin

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• War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Hands, Years

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, Fall, Said Life

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Senior, Learning

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Before I had studied Zen for thirty years,
  I saw mountains as mountains,
  and waters as waters.
  When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains,
  and waters are not waters.
  But now that I have got its very substance
  I am at rest.
  For it's just that
  I see mountains once again as mountains,
  and waters once again as waters.

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Knowledge, Years, Water

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• When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

  Julian of Norwich

  Night, Years, Church

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Men, Years, Age

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• To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Self, Years

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• Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Integrity, Teaching

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• I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example). I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin's theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all.

  Henry Lipson

  Thinking, Discovery, Years

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• For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere.

  Henry Ford

  Philosophy, Years, Giving

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• To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

  Adrian Younge

  Fall, Years, Today

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead.

  Christopher Titus

  Girl, Teenager, Years

  "Titus / Errrr". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.

  John Daniel

  Religious, Real, War

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• The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Couple, Years

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  Agnes Varda

  Virginia, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Two, Half

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• For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

  Bayazid Bastami

  God, Reality, Years

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• The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Women, Home, Kids

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• There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

  Mortimer Adler

  Years, Skills, People

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• I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her - in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Sex, Nice

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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