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Tag: Time

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

3 December 2020 Coco Chanel

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous – not just to some people in some circumstances – but to everyone all the time.

3 December 2020 Jim Rohn

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

3 December 2020 Karl Marx

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

3 December 2020 Bil Keane

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison

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.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

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.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

3 December 2020 William Blake

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

3 December 2020 Michael Badnarik

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.

3 December 2020 David Attenborough

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.

3 December 2020 Michelle Williams

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.

3 December 2020 Walt Disney

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.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

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.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

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

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors’ appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

3 December 2020 Delmore Schwartz

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

3 December 2020 William James

Time itself comes in drops.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac

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.

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