968 private quotes tagged time

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” — Timothy Leary

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“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” — Coco Chanel

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“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” — George Washington

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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

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“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.” — Will Rogers

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“I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.” — Nelson Mandela

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“You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.” — John Lennon

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“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.” — William Shakespeare

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“Have let your schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Dey

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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” — T. S. Eliot

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“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.” — Charles Bukowski

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“The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.” — Warren Buffett

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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury

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“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.” — Bill Gates

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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” — Woody Allen

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