- Me
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.
- European Union
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
- Nov 07, 2020
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020