#ago

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. ↗

— John Sladek

#be careful #careful #found #i #novel

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#analysis #attribute #best #business #column

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#creeping #crime #details #i #i do

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#ago #always #being #bonus #british

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#achieved #after #ago #blair #created

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. ↗

— John Spratt

#country #dumps #end #guard #hostilities

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion. ↗

— John Spratt

#ago #billion #clinton #clinton administration #country

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio. ↗

— Robert Stack

#any #called #doing #exist #grew

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#appearance #between #capital #deceptive #labor

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#another #another man #captures #capturing #continues