"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

Time, Compromise, Nothing

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"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

Explore more quotes by Margaret Thatcher

"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake."

Love, Money, Wealth, Creation

"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it."

Politics, People, Party

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

Importance, Pride, Right, Satisfaction

"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."

Nation, Country, World

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."

Patience, End

"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."

Friendship, Time, Opportunity, Friend, Enemy

"It's a funny old world."

Fun, Funny, Old, World

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

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"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."

Being, Job, Lonely

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."

Liberty,