Quotes with time-zone

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 2702.

  • Boris Spassky On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • George Orwell On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • David Viscott Once a person says, ''This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do,'' it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
    1992
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was... A king! my young readers will instantly exclaim. No, children, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bob Dylan Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you.
    People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baruch Spinoza One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Norman Douglas One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Wallace Stevens One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
    Speaking to the press following a postively productive meeting with Bill Clinton (24 October 1995)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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