#year

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#education #left #like #liver #look

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#graham #i #last #last year #martha

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while. ↗

— Robert Klein

#because #been #doing #five #i

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before. ↗

— William Adams

#called #divers #done #emperor #five

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#alike #beings #contemporary #human #human beings

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. ↗

— Tim Bray

#days #having #idea #launch #like

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#budget #chases #close #dog #engaging

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#everything #had #i #little #lower