“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
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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.”
“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.”
“It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.”
“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”
“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.”
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.”
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.”
“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.”
“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.”
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
“I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.”
“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.”
“There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.”
“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.”
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”