Quotes with old-time

Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 3518.

  • Anthony Holden What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Jefferson What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aldous Huxley What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia What troubles me about the hostile workplace category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Don DeLillo What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
    Falling Man (2011) 73
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Anna Held Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
    Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Chase When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • M. Rutherford When a man grows old, wisdom will not keep him alive.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Helen Rowland When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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