968 private quotes tagged time

“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” — Stephen Hawking

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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” — Voltaire

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“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.” — Henry Ford

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“For time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“I spend a lot of time reading.” — Bill Gates

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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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“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.” — Bill Gates

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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.” — Karl Marx

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“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” — Mark Twain

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” — Albert Einstein

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.” — Walt Disney

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“Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.” — David Letterman

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“'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'” — Lewis Carroll

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“No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx

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“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” — Deepak Chopra

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