#year

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. ↗

— Primo Levi

#carved #change #erased #even #extraneous

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #future #last #mischievous #people

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#compromise #magic #me #philosophical #tolerance

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#almost #amount #ceremony #divorce #get

I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#commitment #communities #congress #constituents #enforcement

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.' ↗

— Ali Larter

#always #bit #find #get #grow

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#because #becoming #club #good #his

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education. ↗

— Spike Lee

#art #checks #children #class #college

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#build #democracy #forty #forty years #generations