Two Years Quotes - Page 28

• Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, Two

  "USDA Accomplishments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Truth, Years

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• I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

  Orson Welles

  Years, Two Year Olds, People

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• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Country, Hunting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• 'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Years, Two

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• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  Felicia Day

  Dad, Military, Home

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  Felix Dennis

  Years, Two Year Olds, Glitches

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• I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Yoga, Years, Two

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• Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Years, Two

  "The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You from Here to There". Book by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179, 2006.

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• When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

  Jasper Fforde

  Believe, Eight, Years

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• A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Eight, Years, Two

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• Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Years, Two, Long

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.189, Penguin

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• I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Years, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

  William Saroyan

  Father, Years, Two

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• Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.

  Meredith Ann Pierce

  Years, Two

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• Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

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• My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

  Michael Palin

  Years, Two, Parent

  Michael Palin (2015). “The Complete Michael Palin Diaries”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek) Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.271, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Divorce, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.797, Simon and Schuster

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• But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

  Daniel Handler

  Sarcastic, Baby, Congratulations

  "The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), October 18, 2005.

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• Ugh! Why couldn’t anyone ever trust her? She wasn’t a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.’ (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Sunshine, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.64, St. Martin's Press

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