My Time Quotes - Page 9

• I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Law, Criminals

  "Black man in a white court". Nelson Mandela's First Court Statement, www.un.org. 1962.

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• In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

  Maria Sibylla Merian

  Youth, Insects, Investigating

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• UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell

  Nikki Sixx

  Nice, Eden, Heaven

  Nikki Sixx (2007). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.

  Serena Williams

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Selling the sisters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.

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• My life is actually very boring. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

  Jane Green

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

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• I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

  Azar Nafisi

  Teacher, Believe, Eye

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• I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

  Ryan Giggs

  Player, Paul Scholes, United

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• I have always been ahead of my time.

  Nikola Tesla

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Strong, Jobs

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.46, Random House

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• Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Pebbles, Velocity

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Men, Years, Two

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

  Judy Blundell

  Regret, Lying, Heart

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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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• Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Blow, Boys

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.33, Penguin

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• It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.

  Nicholas Sparks

  School, Thinking, House

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