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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Nov 07, 2020
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
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I came over here with $100; it was 1983 and I just ended up staying. New York at that time was very inexpensive and it was very easy to get a job. We lived on Staten Island and you could get cheap rent. It was a good time to be in New York.
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I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
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Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
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I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.
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- Nov 07, 2020
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I win and lose money all the time helps desensitize me, so I can write down $60,000 as the Final Jeopardy wager and not be trembling at the thought of losing that money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
- Fair Amount
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
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- Nov 07, 2020