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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change always takes time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
- Drain
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020