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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
- Future
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
- Just
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I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
- Good
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Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.
- Music
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
- Live
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The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.
- Intelligence
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For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
- Morning
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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
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I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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