Time Quotes - Page 33

• It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

  Tupac Shakur

  Come Up, Happens, Seems

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

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• In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, Mind, Blind

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me Now, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

  Beverly Sills

  Running, Getting Older, Age

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• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Blow, Dust, Watches

  "Expulsion". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers' Union (November 12, 1969) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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  To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

  Susan Sontag

  Moments, Photograph, Mortality

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Hands, People

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Growing Up, May

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ch. 1 (1961)

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• We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

  Charles Stanley

  Strength, Prayer, Tired

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Each moment is a place you've never been.

  Mark Strand

  Stress, Fresh Start, Mindfulness

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Knopf

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• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  David Suzuki

  Priorities, Election, Environment

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• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Age, Prejudice

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• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sorrow, Crowns, Remember

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

  John Travolta

  Traps

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• By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

  John Updike

  Partnership, Dissolving

  John Updike (2012). “Couples: A Novel”, p.550, Random House

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• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  John Updike

  Wisdom, Ideas, Age

  1992 In the New Yorker, Nov.

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• Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Truth, Freedom

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Karma Yoga”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  Isaac Watts

  Understanding, Depth, Hovering

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David JENNINGS (1819). “The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge”, p.21

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• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

  Simone Weil

  Past, Crime, Destruction

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

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• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H. G. Wells

  Years, Rely Upon, Perception

  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Age, Leaves Of Grass, Literature

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• With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Passion, Years

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Destroyer”

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, People, Judgement

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Country, America, Miracle

  Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Art, New York, Powerful

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• It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Female, Revolution, Moral

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.113, Oxford University Press

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