My Time Quotes - Page 4

• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  M. Ward

  Watches, Want, Tvs

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• I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

  Graham Greene

  Different, Term, I Can

  Graham Greene (1972). “Collected Stories”, Jonathan Cape

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• You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

  Mitch Albom

  Fall, Airplane, Thinking

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• Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Growing Up, Trying, Grows

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.159, Race Point Publishing

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• If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don’t waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.” -Barrons

  Karen Marie Moning

  Answers, Waste, Months

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• I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

  Ned Vizzini

  Book, Jealous, Thinking

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

  Twyla Tharp

  Impact, Years, Fit

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• I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Mean, Laughing, The End Of The Day

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fighting, Use, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.489, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

  Arthur Miller

  Drama, Technique, World

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.432, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

  Daniel Handler

  Teaching, Vegetables, Sea

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• We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.

  Erlend Loe

  Nice, Mean, Feel Better

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• ...I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around the corner. I decided a long time ago I'd stop wasting my time looking for something better and enjoy what I had.

  Wendy Mass

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Kissing, Trouble

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  Nat Turner

  Prayer, Mixing, Fasting

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, African American, Television

  "Watts launches African-American channel". Interview with Helena Andrews, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

  Jessamyn West

  Success, Men, Soul

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

  Cassandra Clare

  Two, Looks, Rats

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• Yuki: What could I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn't even know that Jason isn't really a bear! He's a character in a horror film!
  Kyo: So what if I didn't know? Like I'd waste my time watching some dumb movie about a bear!
  Yuki: You truly are an idiot...

  Natsuki Takaya

  Stupid, Character, Cat

  "Fruits Basket". Animation, Comedy, Drama, www.imdb.com. (2001 - ).

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• It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

  Desmond Tutu

  Cutting, Self, Who I Am

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• I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Fun, Believe, World

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• I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.

  Julie Anne Peters

  People

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