“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”
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“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
“Time discovers truth.”
“By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.”
“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”
“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
“If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.”
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.”
“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
“Laws are silent in time of war.”
“I live in a crazy time.”
“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
“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.”
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
“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.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”