Quotes with time-wasting

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 2690.

  • Johann Kaspar Lavater The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Vince Lombardi The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Josh Billings The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • George Orwell The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Blair Underwood The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Billy Beane The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Karl Marx The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Francis Bacon The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Horowitz The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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