Quotes with time-scale

Quotes 2721 till 2740 of 2742.

  • Rupert Brooke But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Aga Khan III Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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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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  • Maya Angelou I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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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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