Quotes with time-zone

Quotes 2361 till 2380 of 2702.

• We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

  Bill Nelson
  American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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• We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

  Bharati Mukherjee
  Indian American writer and professor (1940 - 2017)
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• We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

  Carlisle Floyd
  American opera composer
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• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  Carlos Alazraqui
  American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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• We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

  Bernard Williams
  English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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• We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

  Bruce Babbitt
  American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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• We have a propensity for starting and joining all kinds of organisations, the result was that we were spending more time in conferences than implementing the decisions.

  Commenting on Tanzanias withdrawal from COMESA. 2000-09-04

  Benjamin Mkapa
  Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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• We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

  Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!

  Bella Thorne
  American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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• We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

  John Naisbitt
  American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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• We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

  Carl Karcher
  American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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• We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

  Ban Ki-moon
  South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  Carlo Rubbia
  Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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• We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

  Andrew Cohen
  American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35

  B. W. Powe
  Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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• We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

  Bruce Vento
   
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• We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointments
• self-generating
• five-and-a-half
• disconnections
• fundamental
• generations

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