Quotes with past-time

Quotes 961 till 980 of 3161.

  • Dean William R. Inge I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Alec Baldwin I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Kofi Annan I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Assata Shakur I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley I think that fiction. history and biography are immensely important, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Burn Gorman I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • John McGahern I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • George W. Bush I think we all agree, the past is over.
    Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
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  • Alonzo Church I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Angelina Grimke I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Donald Trump I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Burning Spear I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Robert Brault I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
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