My Time Quotes - Page 33

• Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

  Margaret Fuller

  Pain, Stealing, Effects

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.151

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• It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

  Hannah More

  Time, Might, Expenses

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.197

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• Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

  Bette Midler

  Block, Here I Am, Sound

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, Old Age, Lament

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I am writing a sad story or an angry poem, I am still giving those stories my time and attention.

  Sarah Kay

  Believe, Writing, Giving

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Injury

  Source: www.fitnessguru.co.in

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• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

  Michael Patrick King

  Watches, Knows

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• I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Care, Bones, Sin

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Mean, Thinking, Color

  Winifred Holtby (1936). “South Riding”

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• I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

  Joycelyn Elders

  God, Important, Care

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• I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

  Harold Lloyd

  Turning 40

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• I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

  Lou Gerstner

  Games, Culture, Aspect

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

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• Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

  Phyllis Chesler

  Time, Waste, Killing

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• But now I salute you who follow me,
  It is my time to stand at ease ... content.

  Christopher Vokes

  Ease, Follow Me, Salute

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 232), 1985.

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

  Hadewijch

  Great Love, Wish, Noble

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• I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

  Sheila Heti

  Thinking, Work Out, Satisfaction

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• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

  Steve Martin

  Waiting, Inspired, Happens

  Interview with Meghan Daum, www.believermag.com. May 2005.

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• A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Father, Writing

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• ... I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Determination, Thinking, Talking

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• My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant me grace to wear them as a crown of unsullied honor.

  Christian Scriver

  Hands, Grace, Honor

  Christian Scriver (1860). “Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.222

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• I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Character, Lines, Mindset

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• Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

  Drew Fuller

  Divorce, Waiting, Important

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