968 private quotes tagged time

“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

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“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — T. S. Eliot

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“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” — Will Rogers

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“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” — Albert Einstein

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“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.” — Mark Twain

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“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Time brings all things to pass.” — Aeschylus

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“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.” — Mark Twain

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“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.” — Winston Churchill

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“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.” — Winston Churchill

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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“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

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“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.” — Nelson Mandela

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“I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” — Steven Wright

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“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.” — Khalil Gibran

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“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.” — Steve Jobs

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“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.” — Aristotle

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