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Time Quotes
"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
Time,
74
"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
74
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
72
"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."
72
"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent."
71
"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot."
70
"You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move."
70
"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
Time,
70
"When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture."
69
"You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it."
68
"I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S."
67
"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
67
"I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler."
67
"I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak."
66
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
66
"You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily."
66
"When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time."
66
"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not."
65
"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
Time,
65
"The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'"
65
"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."
65
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
65
"I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time."
Time,
64
"I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever."
Time,
64
"If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time."
63
"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."
63
"It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya."
63
"We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN."
63
"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."
63
"The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time."
62
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