- Opinion
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
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- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
- Nov 07, 2020
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resisted being an actor for some time.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.
- Contests
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020