- Everything
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
- Dispense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons of light would interact with an atom all at the same time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020