968 private quotes tagged time

“No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.” — Linda Ellerbee

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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Douglas Adams

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“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.” — Peter Drucker

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“I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.” — Steven Adler

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“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.” — Jack Nicholson

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“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” — Emily Dickinson

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“I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.” — Jim Brown

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“I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.” — Stokely Carmichael

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“Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” — Trey Parker

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“My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.” — Manmohan Singh

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“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” — E. O. Wilson

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“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” — Thomas Mann

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“The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.” — Billy Graham

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“In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.” — Robert Collier

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“You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.” — Terry Bradshaw

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“No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” — Epictetus

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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.” — Robert Southey

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“The present is a point just passed.” — David Russell

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“I confess, I do not believe in time.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.” — Doug Larson

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“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.” — Francois Rabelais

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“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” — James M. Barrie

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“The best way to fill time is to waste it.” — Marguerite Duras

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