Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 2761.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
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Marriage is memory, marriage is time.
The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 197 -
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
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Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
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Men spend their time chasing a ball or a hare; it is the very sport of kings.
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ''Why not?'' and the other, ''Why bother?''
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
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