"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

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"We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment."

Earl Blumenauer, American Politician

Time, War, Commitment, Iraq

"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."

Bernadette Peters, American Actress

Time, People, Babies, Boys

"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."

Mariska Hargitay, American Actress

Time, Pretty

"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

Time, Children, Now, Space

"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it."

Nikki Giovanni, American Poet

Time, Truth, Now

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Time, Father, Want

"There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Time, Awareness, Existence, Moments

"I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18."

Talib Kweli, American Musician

Time,

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Earl Nightingale, American Entertainer

Time, Work, Family, Life

"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer

Time, Mother, First, Old

Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."

Age, Work, People, Doubt

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

Creativity, Ideas, Artist

"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."

Work, Darkness, First

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

Art, Power, Nothing, Perfection

"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

Love,

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

Poor, Property, Right

"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Power, Successful, Effort, Temperament

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Being, Fish

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."

Love, Thoughtful

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

Education, Will