My Time Quotes - Page 40

• I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

  Wess Stafford

  Comforting, Half, Comfortable

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crazy, Order, Years

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• Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time." [...] "This is my time, Hathaway. I'm leading today's session." "Oh yeah?" I retorted. "Huh. Well, I guess this is a good time to think about me naked, then." "It's always a good a time to think about you naked," added someone nearby, breaking the tension further.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Naked, Hey

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.20, Penguin

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• You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hands, Elephants

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• I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eternity

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Trying, Would Be

  Michael Scott (2009). “The Sorceress”, p.325, Random House

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• I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Drinking, Airports, News Stories

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• There are many who would take my time. I shun them.
  There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Satanic, Cherish, Satanism

  "The Devil's Notebook". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1992.

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• You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dark, Years, Aquarius

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

  Joanne Harris

  Stars, Fall, Clouds

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• The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Past, Optimism

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• I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

  Steven Morrissey

  Doe, Praying, Wasting My Time

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• Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Religion

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Relationship, Mean, Long

  "The Last Song". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 1, 2009.

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• Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

  Lady Gaga

  Humorous, Trying, Waste

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• She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to eat with. Why? I have no clue, and I really don't want to spend my time worrying about it. But my brain pushes at the question anyway. Why are people aloof? Because they don't want to let others in. Why don't they want to let others in? Well, sometimes because they're shy, and sometimes because they're convinced of their own superiority. But those aren't the only reasons. Sometimes it's because thay have something to hide.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Eye, People

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• They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

  John Flanagan

  Men, Wife, Poor

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• I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Looks, Want

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• Why are you doing this? (Rafael) Because life’s too short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love’s too rare to squander it with petty concerns. I’m lucky I have Chloe and I have no intention of letting a war I didn’t start rob me of one second of my time with her. Go in peace, Dark-Hunter. (Apollite)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  War, Fighting, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “A Hard Day's Night Searcher”, p.331, St. Martin's Press

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• I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Heart, House

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• A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Names, Half, Handwriting

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• When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

  Jason Mraz

  Falling In Love, Shining, Mind

  Song: The Remedy

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• Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Bullshit, Trying

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• My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Crush, Mother, Father

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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