#years

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ... ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#balance #collecting #lies #more-terrible #old-woman

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#new-years #new-years-eve #snow

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away. ↗

— Willie Aames

#after #away #come #five #i

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. ↗

— Willie Aames

#bible #claim #get #getting #god

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. ↗

— Felix Adler

#faith #formulas #men #more #quarreled

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#big picture #down #down the road #four #hard

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#better #certain #death #episode #every

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#destiny #hundreds #land #occupied #outcome

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#court #i #plunged #popularity #publicity