- Mad
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely devote so much more time to acting, but since it only takes a day or two to shoot and get pictures out - whereas for acting, you do an audition, or loads, and you might not get any of them - so I did the modeling stuff because, obviously, if I have the opportunity, I'm going to take it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I don't have much of a preference. With TV, it's just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.
- Assert
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020