968 private quotes tagged time

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

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“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” — 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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“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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“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” — Albert Einstein

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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — T. S. Eliot

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“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.” — John Wooden

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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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“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” — Will Rogers

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“Time brings all things to pass.” — Aeschylus

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“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.” — 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 am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.” — Nelson Mandela

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“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.” — George Carlin

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“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“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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“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.” — Steve Jobs

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“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” — Franz Kafka

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