968 private quotes tagged time

“To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein

0 favs

“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.” — Henry Rollins

0 favs

“Nothing great 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

0 favs

“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.” — Emma Goldman

0 favs

“People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.” — Donald Trump

0 favs

“The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.” — Andy Rooney

0 favs

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

0 favs

“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

0 favs

“My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

0 favs

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” — Hippocrates

0 favs

“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” — Samuel Smiles

0 favs

“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.” — Colin Powell

0 favs

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.” — Margaret Mead

0 favs

“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.” — Norodom Sihanouk

0 favs

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.” — James A. Baldwin

0 favs

“Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.” — Pope John Paul II

0 favs

“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.” — Margaret Mead

0 favs

“For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.” — Erma Bombeck

0 favs

“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.” — Bob Dylan

0 favs

“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” — Hermann Hesse

0 favs

“Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.” — Garry Moore

0 favs

“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.” — Kirsten Dunst

0 favs

“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.” — Thomas Merton

0 favs

“The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.” — Michael Gove

0 favs

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?” — Scott Adams

0 favs