Quotes with time-lag

Quotes 2261 till 2280 of 2685.

  • Baltasar Gracián To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Francis Bacon To choose time is to save time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jami To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • David Viscott To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Blaise Pascal To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Brendon Burchard To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ang Lee To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Carl Sagan To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ben Gibbard To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bruce Lee To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Aaron Copland To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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