“I spend a lot of time reading.”
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“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”
“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.”
“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”
“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.”
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”
“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.”
“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.”
“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”
“Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.”
“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
“Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”