Two Years Quotes - Page 39

• After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Passion, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Believe, Years

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Strong, Animal, Thinking

  "555kg yoke-carry for 10m in the middle of Berlin". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. September 1, 2013.

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• In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

  Jack Abramoff

  Hurt, Past, Men

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• From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

  Mark Pincus

  Years, Two, Entrepreneur

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• There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.

  Edward Burns

  Intelligent, Years, Two

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• The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

  Glenn Frey

  Drinking, Eagles, Years

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• I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.

  Miguel Quinteros

  Learning, Order, Years

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• I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

  Margaret Cho

  Funny, School, Sunday

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• KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Animal, Years, Two

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• For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

  Michael Arad

  Years, Names, Two

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• They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Years, Byu

  "Mitt Romney: ‘95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You’re Born In This Country’" by Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

  Roland Joffe

  Thinking, Gestation Period, Should Have

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• I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.

  Harry Carson

  Memories, Hard Work, Names

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• Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

  Jennifer Echols

  Girl, Maturity, Boys

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  Years, Two, People

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Years, Two, Archives

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• I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Talking, Years, Two

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• I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two year military service, I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me. I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

  Gal Gadot

  Country, Strong, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

  David Agus

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Years, Two, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

  Julie Powell

  Hate, Naps, Years

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• Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

  John Bevere

  Spiritual, Children, Years

  John Bevere (2010). “The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.59, Charisma Media

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• I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

  Max Cannon

  Book, Years, Two

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• Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.

  Betsy Lerner

  Giving Up, Heart, Years

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