- Fate
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020