Quotes with time-wasting

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  • Honoré de Balzac Finance, like time, devours its own children.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Doug Horton First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Carl Bernstein For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have wondered about time all my life.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Audie Murphy I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Anita Roddick If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Thornton Wilder It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • C. Neil Strait Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Woody Allen More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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