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Time Quotes
"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."
38
"This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe."
38
"At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud."
38
"There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."
38
"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it."
38
"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection."
38
"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it."
38
"The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century."
38
"I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person."
38
"Children spend their time for they think they have more time, adults cry over their time for they see they have less time."
38
"The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume."
38
"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
38
"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."
38
"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."
37
"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
37
"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
37
"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are."
Time,
37
"Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time."
37
"In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever."
37
"We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners."
37
"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."
37
"I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day."
37
"I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections."
37
"I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides."
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