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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was fighting at a weekend, I would be in when my friends were out. I never had time to go out and go off the rails.
- Help
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My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.
- Big News
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The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake.
- Looking
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get out of the car after the feeling that you have after leading the race, and the car fails, it's pretty hard to say positive things all the time.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
- Good
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Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.
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- Nov 07, 2020