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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
- Headaches
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I turn on the TV, it infuriates me. You'll see an ad for Advil or Viagra and hear some monotonous voice warn you about even the smaller side effects like headaches or nausea. When you see a tampon commercial, it's all happy teenage girls running along the beach in bikinis. The dangers are beyond minimized.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say that it's rare, and for the longest time, I felt alone being a victim of TSS. It not only left physical wounds but mental ones. I battled PTSD and fell into a dark depression after what happened. I melted into my bed, and life just sort of stopped.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
- Father Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020