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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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“Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming you ‘don’t have the time’.” -Bo Bennett
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“I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.” -Dan Millman
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“When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.” -Vladimir Lenin
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“Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot,…
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“I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.” -John Wooden
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“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“It’s good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don’t think I can handle being here all the time, it’s pretty nutty.” -Johnny Depp
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“Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.” -Michael Jackson
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“Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.” -Ted Nugent
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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” -James Allen
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“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!” -Coco Chanel
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“The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.” -Chanakya
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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!” -Bobby Knight
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“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” -Oswald Chambers
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“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.” -Bill Watterson
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“Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.” -Voltaire
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“It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.” -Will Durant
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“I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It’s a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.” -Danielle Dax
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“Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.” -George Burns
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“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” -W. C. Fields
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“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” -Bob Hope
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“For time is the longest distance between two places.” -Tennessee Williams
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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” -Virginia Woolf
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“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.” -Stewart Alsop
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“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.” -Kirsten Dunst
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“Freedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that ‘Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,’ as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn’t insist on their right…
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“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.” -Robert Kennedy
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“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.” -Ismail Haniyeh
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“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford
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“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.” -Will Rogers
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“Y’know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.” -Viktor E. Frankl
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“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.” -Richard Pryor
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“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.” -Plato
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“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” -Edith Wharton
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” -John Lubbock
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“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” -William Penn
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“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” -Sigmund Freud
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“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.” -Groucho Marx
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“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.” -Bob Dylan
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“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.” -Liam Neeson
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“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” -Judy Garland
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“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.” -Nelson Mandela
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“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” -Napoleon Hill
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“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.” -Bill Cosby
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“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” -Anais Nin
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“The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’” -Will Smith
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“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.” -Albert Camus
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“If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.” -Mae West
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“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” -Rene Descartes
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“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” -Hippocrates
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“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.” -Malcolm X
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“Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.” -Wayne Dyer
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“I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn’t earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.” -Charlie Sheen
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“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.” -Cesar Chavez
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“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.” -John Locke
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“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” -Dale Carnegie
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“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.” -Walt Disney
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“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner.” -Michael Symon
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“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.” -Dave Van Ronk
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“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” -Auguste Rodin
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“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.” -Steve Jobs
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“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” -John Leonard
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” -Octavia Butler
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.” -Martha Graham
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“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.” -George Carlin
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“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.” -Eminem
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
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“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” -Frank Zappa
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“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” -Tony Robbins
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“Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.” -Tupac Shakur
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“I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.” -Kurt Cobain
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“Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.” -Aristotle
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“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.” -Michael Jordan
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“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.” -Charles Bukowski
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“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” -Richard Lamm
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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” -John F. Kennedy
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“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” -Tecumseh
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“Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.” -Mary Schmich
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“I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” -Joan Jett
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“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.” -Khalil Gibran
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“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.” -John Clayton
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” -C. S. Lewis
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“You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.” -John Lennon
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“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” -James Agate
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“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?” -Scott Adams
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“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” -Dean Acheson
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“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller
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“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.” -Herb Caen
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“Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.” -Bob Marley
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“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.” -Mark Twain
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“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.” -Winston Churchill
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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” -Tom Robbins
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“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” -J. D. Salinger
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” -Marie Curie
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” -Maya Angelou
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” -Bruce Lee
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“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” -George Washington
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“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” -Dr. Seuss
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“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” -Dale Evans
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” -Socrates
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“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” -Julie Andrews
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“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.” -Natalie Wood
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“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.” -J. Michael Straczynski
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“We must use time creatively.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Confucius
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” -Albert Einstein
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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” -Helen Keller
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“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” -Johnny Cash
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“O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.” -Helen Hunt Jackson
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“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” -Faith Baldwin
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“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” -Robert Brault
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin
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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That’s probably why they get along so well.” -Jonathan Carroll
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“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.” -John Wanamaker
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“Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” -Samuel Smiles
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“I confess, I do not believe in time.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.” -Mark Helprin
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“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.” -Tillie Olsen
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“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.” -Giordano Bruno
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“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.” -Henry Austin Dobson
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