Time Quotes
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
Octavio Paz
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
Jo Brand
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The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.
Drew Carey
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Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time, does it really matter?
Jon Gruden
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I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.
Jennifer McMahon
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I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.
Jennifer Egan
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If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.
George Muller
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
Nadine Gordimer
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I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
Amy Heckerling
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There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
Ben Okri
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When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
Brantley Gilbert
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Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.
Kumail Nanjiani
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Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.
Emily Blunt
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
Ahdaf Soueif
