968 private quotes tagged time

“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

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“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

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

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.” — Sophia Bush

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“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

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“What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.” — Philip Zimbardo

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“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.” — Mary Schmich

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“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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“The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.” — Chanakya

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“Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” — George W. Bush

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“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.” — Lillian Smith

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“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” — Eartha Kitt

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“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.” — Jean Paul

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

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“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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“I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.” — Claire McCaskill

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“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” — Oswald Chambers

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