Quotes with past-time

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  • Andre Breton Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
    Original: Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Salvatore Satta His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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  • Bryce Harper I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • B. W. Powe If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 161
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Blair Underwood In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso It takes a long time to become young.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Samuel Smiles Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Hermann Hesse One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Barbara Bush People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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