Quotes with big-time

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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Sophocles The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Hazlitt The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bram Cohen The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich The men who make history have not time to write it.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • Barry Commoner The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Arianna Huffington The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adela Rogers St. Johns The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
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  • Brene Brown The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
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  • Ben Whishaw The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The name of an iron man goes round the world.
    It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
    Source: Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bob Cousy The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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