One Time Quotes

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Gratitude, Time, Add

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 30, 2013

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

  J. B. Priestley

  Time, Travel, Holiday

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• We only get to play this game one time, one life.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  Quincy Jones

  Thinking, Years, Care

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

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• Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

  Crystal Gayle

  Fun, Thinking, Surfing

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• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Race, Land

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

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• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, San Francisco

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• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Guy, Embarrassed

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• I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Thinking, Remember

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• We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Knows, Millions

  Hillary Clinton's remarks during the Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2007.

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Boss

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• A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

  Mitch Daniels

  People, Decision, Doe

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• The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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

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• At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

  David Duchovny

  Artist, People, Needs

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• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Paris

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• His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Butterfly, Wings, Dust

  A Moveable Feast "Scott Fitzgerald" (1964)

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