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Time Quotes


"You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move."


"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."


"I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time."


"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."


"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."


"I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint."


"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."


"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler."


"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
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"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."


"I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time."


"The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'"


"The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me."


"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."


"Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."


"When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose."


"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."


"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."


"In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer."


"Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain."


"I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time."
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"But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working."
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"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."


"So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time."


"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."


"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
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