Quotes with time-scale

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  • Brendan Myers Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Box Brown Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Ben Lovett Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Barbra Streisand How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Source: Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • John Milton How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Leo Rosten Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Brooke Shields I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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