968 private quotes tagged time

“Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.” — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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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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“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” — Margaret Thatcher

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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, to turn things around.” — Sylvia Earle

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“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?” — Honore de Balzac

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“I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.” — Jermaine Jackson

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“By the time we've made it, we've had it.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.” — Ron Paul

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“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” — Paul Valery

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“Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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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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“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.” — Thomas Merton

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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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“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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“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 a-s!” — Bobby Knight

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“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.” — Mike Tyson

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“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.” — Katharine Hepburn

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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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“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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“Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.” — Mike Tyson

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“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” — Sydney J. Harris

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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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