time quotes

“At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.”

— Paul McCartney

“I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”

“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”

— Honore de Balzac

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams

“Time is bunk.”

— Douglas Adams

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

— Terry Pratchett

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”

— Albert Einstein

“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”

— Philip Kindred Dick

“I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.”

— Roger Zelazny

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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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— Kurt Vonnegut

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

— John Updike

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.”

“You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate. ”

— John Lennon

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

— Martin Luther King

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

— Martin Luther King

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.”

— Martin Luther King

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when your changing. Your growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”

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