968 private quotes tagged time

“I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'” — Erma Bombeck

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“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” — Rene Descartes

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“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” — Thomas Sowell

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“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.” — Mary Kay Ash

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“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.” — Johnny Depp

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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” — Virginia Woolf

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“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.” — Will Durant

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“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.” — Thomas Merton

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“There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” — W.C. Fields

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“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.” — Ismail Haniyeh

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“When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my a-s!” — Bobby Knight

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“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.” — Mike Tyson

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“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.” — Ted Nugent

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“Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.” — Mike Tyson

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“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.” — Michael Jackson

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“It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” — Charles Dickens

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