Quotes with past-time

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 3161.

  • Gaston Bachelard One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Baltasar Gracián One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Louis Kronenberger One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Cohen One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bernard Crick One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Molière One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Michael Cibenko One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
    Michael Cibenko
    American author
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Nancy Astor One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Eugene J. Mccarthy One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Brene Brown One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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