Quotes with old-time

Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 3518.

  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Frank Gelett Burgess Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Marc Andreessen This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
    Marc Andreessen
    American entrepreneur, investor, and software (1971 - )
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  • Bill Gates This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Veeck This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Winston Churchill This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brad Henry This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bill Moyers This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bono This moment in time will be remembered for three things: the war against terror, sure; the Internet, probably; and how we let an entire continent, Africa, burst into flames and stood around with water in cans.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Irwin This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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