968 private quotes tagged time

“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” — Faith Baldwin

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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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“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” — Adam Hochschild

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“Time was God's first creation.” — Walter Lang

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“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.” — Thomas Huxley

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“When in doubt, take more time.” — John Zimmerman

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“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” — Dion Boucicault

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“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.” — J. Michael Straczynski

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“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” — Malcolm X

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“Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” — Vince Lombardi

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx

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“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate

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“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.” — Herb Caen

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“Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.” — Bob Marley

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“When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.” — Michael Jordan

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“I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.” — Vince Lombardi

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“Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!” — Eminem

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“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.” — Tupac Shakur

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