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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘time’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.” -Harry S. Truman
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“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” -James A. Baldwin
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“I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.” -Orson Welles
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“A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on ‘Barney’, but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that’s a good thing!” -Selena Gomez
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“It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.” -Herman Cain
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“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.” -Mason Cooley
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“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.” -Thomas Merton
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“The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.” -Fred Allen
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“People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.” -Donald Trump
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“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?” -Honore de Balzac
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“You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.” -Franz Kafka
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“If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.” -Demetri Martin
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“Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard.” -Pope John Paul II
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“You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?” -Jeanette Winterson
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“Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.” -Bill Hicks
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“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” -Jack London
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“And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time.” -Jesus Christ
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“Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.” -Tony Snow
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“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.” -Neil Gaiman
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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” -Mary Oliver
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“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” -George Eliot
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“Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.” -Adam Sandler
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Try not to have a good time… this is supposed to be educational.” -Charles M. Schulz
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“I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.” -Andy Rooney
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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.” -John Steinbeck
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“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” -Jean Paul
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“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It’s just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.” -David Attenborough
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“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” -Jack Kerouac
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“Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.” -Robert De Niro
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“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” -Louis Kronenberger
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“If we don’t get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It’s time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.” -Harvey Weinstein
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“Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.” -Ani DiFranco
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“Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don’t worry girls, look like a wreck, that’s the way it goes.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.” -Seth Godin
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“And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it’s really refreshing.” -Jenna Elfman
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“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” -Jean Racine
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“Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can’t.” -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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“Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.” -Mike Schmidt
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“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” -Lawrence Durrell
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“When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one’s too tall and that one doesn’t have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – there’s a billion reasons not to…
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“Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.” -Jim Carrey
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“I’m in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.” -Suge Knight
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“The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.” -Black Elk
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“Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.” -Jim Valvano
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“Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.” -Garry Moore
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“Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time – and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.” -Ryan Reynolds
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“The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.” -John C. Maxwell
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“What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?” -Freddie Mercury
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“Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.” -George Mason
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“If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.” -Donny Osmond
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“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“Don’t forget it’s daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It’s like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.” -David Letterman
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“Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.” -Axl Rose
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“I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don’t trust government. And they haven’t trusted government for a long time.” -Claire McCaskill
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“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.” -Denis Waitley
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“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.” -Earl Nightingale
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“From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.” -Elvis Presley
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“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.” -Freddy Fender
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“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?” -Douglas…
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” -George Edward Moore
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“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!” -Fidel Castro
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“As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.” -Jim Ramstad
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“I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I’m not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.” -Bjork
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“That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.” -Joe Rogan
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“I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.” -Kid Rock
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“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.” -e. e. cummings
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“Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.” -Mercedes McCambridge
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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” -Robert Southey
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“Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.”…
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“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.” -Martin Heidegger
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“We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.” -Kim Basinger
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“Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.” -Dennis Miller
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“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” -Mia Hamm
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“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.” -Heinrich Heine
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“Men know everything – all of them – all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it’s possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes – clashes of ego.” -Taylor Hackford
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“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” -Jean Genet
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“I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of…
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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” -E. B. White
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“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” -Blaise Pascal
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“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.” -Ingrid Bergman
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“I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.” -Louis C. K.
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“I’m embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.” -Phil McGraw
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“You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.” -Joan Rivers
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“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.” -Michael Badnarik
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“A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.” -Frank Shorter
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“A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.” -Joe Moore
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“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.” -Edmund Burke
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“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” -Francis Bacon
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“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.” -Walt Whitman
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“There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.” -Doug Coupland
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“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.” -Marcel Proust
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“There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.” -Katy Perry
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“Do not wait the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” -George Herbert
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“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.” -Terry Pratchett
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“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.” -Colin Powell
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“I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.” -Jack Nicholson
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“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.” -Al McGuire
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“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” -Anton Chekhov
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“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time.” -Frank Miller
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“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” -Roger Ebert
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“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” -John Berger
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“I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I’m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I’ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.” -Danica Patrick
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“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” -Carl Sandburg
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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we’ve all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.” -Sophia Bush
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“When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex. It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.” -Janis Joplin
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“To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” -Susan Sontag
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“Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.” -Ross Perot
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“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.” -Emma Goldman
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“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“I like somebody who’s not so crazy but likes to have a good time… and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.” -Kate Bosworth
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“Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.” -Ralph Ransom
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“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” -Bette Davis
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“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“Anyone who says they’re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.” -Anderson Cooper
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“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.” -Karl Marx
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“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.” -Margaret Mead
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“I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.” -Debi Thomas
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“To talk about balance, it’s easier to talk about what’s out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there’s disease, you’re out of balance, whether it’s jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.” -Ricky Williams
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“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” -Thomas Fuller
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“I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.” -Zac Efron
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“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” -Larry Bird
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“I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.” -Jermaine Jackson
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“I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.” -Dolly Parton
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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.” -H. G. Wells
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“Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” -Epictetus
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“(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.” -Tallulah Bankhead
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“I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.” -Tim Tebow
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“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” -Andre Gide
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“There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.” -Max Lucado
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“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.” -Jane Bryant Quinn
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“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” -Gillian Anderson
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“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” -Timothy Leary
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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.” -Andre Maurois
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“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” -Hermann Hesse
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“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” -Jesse Jackson
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“Portland, Oregon won’t build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.” -Lance Armstrong
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“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” -Alexander Smith
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“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.” -Gabriel Heatter
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“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.” -Phyllis Diller
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“People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it’s jazz music-it’s not easy for them to get to it. I don’t want them ever to feel that I’m taking their presence lightly.” -Wynton Marsalis
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“When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.” -Jerry West
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“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.” -Glenn Beck
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“I’m trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.” -Shawn Johnson
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“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.” -Richard P. Feynman
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