Quotes with past-time

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  • Margaret Atwood I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Ben Roethlisberger I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Ideas move fast when their time comes.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Marcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bram Stoker If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Ezra Pound If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • A. R. Ammons If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bill Clinton If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.
    Source: Interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Anthea Turner If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Fran Tarkenton If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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  • Simone Weil If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • A. W. Tozer If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Calvin Coolidge If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Richard Cecil If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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