time

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).

  • “If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.” -Temple Grandin

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  • “Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.” -Thomas Szasz

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  • “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” -William Butler Yeats

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  • “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” -Ansel Adams

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  • “Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.” -Bob Ney

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  • “Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.” -Alvin Toffler

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  • “Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.” -John Ciardi

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  • “The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.” -Gordon Ramsay

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  • “My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‘Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?’ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‘I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he…

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  • “I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.” -Calvin Coolidge

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  • “Time is bunk.” -Douglas Adams

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  • “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” -Peter Drucker

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  • “I live in a crazy time.” -Anne Frank

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  • “How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema.” -Warren Beatty

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  • “As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.” -Cleveland Amory

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  • “The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.” -Michael Gove

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  • “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” -Ernie Harwell

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  • “Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.” -John Ruskin

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  • “The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.” -Josh Billings

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  • “Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.” -Molly Ivins

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  • “I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.” -J. R. R. Tolkien

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  • “It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.” -Tony Benn

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  • “To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There’s peace where there’s order.” -Joe Gold

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  • “I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.” -Sachin Tendulkar

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  • “Everything comes in time to those who can wait.” -Francois Rabelais

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  • “It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.” -T. S. Eliot

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  • “Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” -Bertrand Russell

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  • “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” -Sydney J. Harris

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  • “It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.” -Karl Von Clausewitz

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  • “As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn’t work for me. I’d just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody…

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  • “Don’t get too comfortable with who you are at any given time – you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.” -Jon Bon Jovi

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  • “Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that’s his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he’s at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people…

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  • “I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.” -Stephen King

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  • “I’m someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That’s why I live very simply. I’m a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don’t spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I’m in…

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  • “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” -Eartha Kitt

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  • “I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.” -Imelda Marcos

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  • “A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.” -Zora Neale Hurston

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  • “Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.” -Arthur Ashe

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  • “I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.” -Michael Phelps

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  • “Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.” -Dag Hammarskjold

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  • “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” -Sylvia Plath

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  • “Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.” -Deepak Chopra

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  • “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” -William Blake

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  • “A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.” -Christopher Hitchens

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  • “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.” -Annie Dillard

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  • “They’re trying to tell us that we’re not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can’t know who you are if you don’t spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.” -Naomi Judd

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  • “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.” -Frederick Douglass

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  • “Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.” -Robert Staughton Lynd

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  • “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.” -Louis L’Amour

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  • “If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.” -Noam Chomsky

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  • “Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “It’s important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.” -Christina Aguilera

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  • “The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.” -George Orwell

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  • “Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton

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  • “Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” -Stephen Hawking

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  • “Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren’t so. I really, really do.” -Hillary Clinton

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  • “In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” -Thomas Carlyle

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  • “Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” -Woody Allen

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  • “We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going… Concentrate on something useful.” -Arnold Bennett

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  • “We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.” -Karen Armstrong

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  • “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” -Joel A. Barker

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  • “Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.” -Samuel Gompers

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  • “We die only once, and for such a long time.” -Moliere

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  • “Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” -Augustine of Hippo

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  • “Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” -Jorge Luis Borges

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  • “It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God’s name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.” -Vance Havner

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  • “And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” -John D. Rockefeller

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  • “I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.” -Yakov Smirnoff

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  • “When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.” -Lillian Smith

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  • “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” -Bell Hooks

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  • “To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.” -Og Mandino

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  • “For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.” -Hubert H. Humphrey

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  • “Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.” -Karl Lagerfeld

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  • “Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.” -Shakti Gawain

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  • “The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” -Lil Wayne

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  • “The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater

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  • “Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.” -Steven Biko

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  • “When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was…

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  • “People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.” -Chinua Achebe

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  • “I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.” -Anthony Hopkins

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  • “Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.” -David Wilkerson

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  • “We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.” -Susan Taylor

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  • “Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don’t sit in the dark hiding. It’s easy to hide and shout and waste people’s time.” -Billy Connolly

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  • “If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.” -Ray Bradbury

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  • “I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.” -Billy Graham

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  • “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” -Emily Dickinson

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  • “I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.” -Dido Armstrong

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  • “In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.” -Robert Collier

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  • “Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.” -Samuel Beckett

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  • “The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” -Michael Korda

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  • “I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.” -Mark…

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  • “Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.” -Soren Kierkegaard

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  • “Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.” -Georgia O’Keeffe

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  • “Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.” -Edward Everett Hale

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  • “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -Les Brown

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  • “Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.” -Skeet Ulrich

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  • “We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.” -Victor Hugo

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  • “By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.” -Gore Vidal

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  • “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” -Leonardo da Vinci

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  • “There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.” -Dick Cheney

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  • “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” -E. O. Wilson

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  • “I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be…

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  • “People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.” -Lisa See

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  • “You’ve got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.” -Terry Bradshaw

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  • “Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” -Thomas Mann

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  • “To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.” -Leonard Bernstein

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  • “About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” -Herbert Hoover

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  • “A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone

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  • “I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” -Michelle Obama

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  • “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.” -Charles Dickens

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  • “Time discovers truth.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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  • “My top most priority is to deal with India’s massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.” -Manmohan Singh

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  • “You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you. You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.” -Drew Barrymore

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  • “Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” -George W. Bush

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  • “You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.” -Tom Hopkins

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  • “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” -Henny Youngman

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  • “If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.” -Linda Ellerbee

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  • “Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” -Homer

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  • “No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.” -Meir Kahane

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  • “Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.” -Norman Borlaug

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  • “I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you’re getting sober but the reason why you’re depressed all the time is it’s the drugs that are depressing you.” -Steven Adler

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  • “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” -Dorothea Lange

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  • “No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.” -Margaret Thatcher

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  • “What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” -Aldous Huxley

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  • “Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.” -Dave Winfield

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  • “I’m not interested in trying to work on people’s perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don’t take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.” -Jim Brown

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  • “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.” -Don Zimmer

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  • “I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.” -Stokely Carmichael

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  • “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” -Trey Parker

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  • “Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.” -Henry Rollins

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  • “The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It’s more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.” -Alex Lifeson

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  • “I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver.” -Kim Kardashian

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  • “I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.” -Elizabeth Taylor

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  • “I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.” -Angelina Jolie

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  • “People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” -Brian Tracy

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  • “I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.” -Carl Yastrzemski

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  • “Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” -Tim Berners-Lee

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  • “I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It’s good time management.” -Michelle Williams

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  • “As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.” -Rick Danko

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  • “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

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  • “A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel

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  • “Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.” -Lydia Lunch

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  • “Time itself comes in drops.” -William James

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  • “‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’” -Lewis Carroll

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  • “You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That’s, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you’re chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.” -Slash

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  • “The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.” -Bill Copeland

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  • “I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.” -Paulo Coelho

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  • “Time makes more converts than reason.” -Thomas Paine

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  • “I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.” -Bill Gates

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  • “Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.” -George S. Patton

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  • “I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.” -Mike Tyson

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  • “I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.” -Bill Bryson

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  • “When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.” -Orison Swett Marden

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  • “God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.” -Steve Harvey

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  • “Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” -Dave Barry

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  • “Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.” -Norodom Sihanouk

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  • “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” -Julia Child

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  • “I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She’s instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.” -Scott Brooks

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  • “The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.” -Warren Buffett

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  • “I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking,’ but I don’t have that much time.” -Steven Wright

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  • “It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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  • “Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.” -Rodney Dangerfield

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  • “It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.” -Katharine Hepburn

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  • “As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn’t be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.” -Ron Paul

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  • “Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.” -John Barrymore

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  • “Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” -Alfred A. Montapert

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  • “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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  • “I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.” -Reese Witherspoon

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  • “Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they’ve ever been is kicked.” -Little Richard

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  • “Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

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  • “Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.” -W. Clement Stone

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  • “If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.” -Thomas J. Watson

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  • “Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.” -Thomas A. Edison

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  • “At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.” -Mitt Romney

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  • “Time stays, we go.” -H. L. Mencken

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  • “People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.” -Clint Eastwood

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  • “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • “Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.” -Joyce Meyer

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  • “Perfection is the child of time.” -Joseph Hall

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