- Need
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
- Domesticated
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
- Harder Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love eggs, particularly omelettes, and can eat anda-pav at any time of the day.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020