„We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.”Five years next November.”The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„For last year's words belong to last year's languageAnd next year's words await another voice.“
— T.S. Eliot
„What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?“
— Eckhart Tolle
„Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.“
— Stephen King
„A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.“
— Robert Frost
„What we are looking at on all our TV sets is a man who finally, after 24 years of frenzied effort, became the President of the United States with a personal salary of $200,000 a year and an unlimited expense account including a fleet of private helicopters, jetliners, armored cars, personal mansions and estates on both coasts and control over a budget beyond the wildest dream of King Midas … and all the dumb bastard can show us, after five years of total freedom to do anything he wants with all this power, is a shattered national economy, disastrous defeat in a war we could have ended four years ago on far better terms than he finally came around to, and a hand-picked personal staff put together through five years of screening, whose collective criminal record will blow the minds of high-school American History students for the next 100 years.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„I venture to think that in future the Czechoslovak State cannot be maintained as an independent entity. You will find that in a period of time which may be measured by years, but may be measured only by months, Czechoslovakia will be engulfed in the Nazi régime. … It is the most grievous consequence which we have yet experienced of what we have done and of what we have left undone in the last five years—five years of futile good intention, five years of eager search for the line of least resistance, five years of uninterrupted retreat of British power, five years of neglect of our air defences.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.“
— John Wooden