968 private quotes tagged time

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” — John Leonard

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“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.” — Michael Badnarik

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“You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.” — Taylor Hackford

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“I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.” — Kim Basinger

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“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.” — Martin Heidegger

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“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!” — Fidel Castro

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“A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.” — Frank Shorter

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“I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.” — Charles Stanley

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“Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.” — Dennis Miller

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“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.” — Lawrence Durrell

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“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” — Jean Genet

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“When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.” — Barbara Sher

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“How time files when you's doin' all the talking.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.” — E. E. Cummings

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“I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.” — Kid Rock

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“As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.” — Jim Ramstad

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“From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.” — Elvis Presley

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“I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.” — Bjork

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