Quotes with past-time

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• The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

  Lawrence Durrell
  British Author (1912 - 1990)
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• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

  William Faulkner
  American writer (1897 - 1962)
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• The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  Edgar W. Howe
  American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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• The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

  Austin O'Malley
  American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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• The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

  Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best of prophets of the future is the past.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis
  American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best time to make friends is before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore
  American actress (1879 - 1959)
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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
  

  Agatha Christie
  British writer (1890 - 1976)
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• The best way to fill time is to waste it.

  Marguerite Duras
  French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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• The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

  G.S. Halifax
   
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• The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

  Brendan Myers
  Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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• The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

  Benjamin Todd Jealous
  American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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• The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

  Anita Desai
  Indian novelist (1937 - )
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• The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

  Jean Rostand
  French writer (1894 - 1977)
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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins
  American novelist (1932 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• definitively
• progressive
• transformed
• generally
• obviously

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