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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Will Durant

Historian · American · 1885 – 1981

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

Poet · American · 1885 – 1972

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

Novelist · American · 1892 – 1982

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Gregory Bateson

Scientist · British · 1904 – 1980

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Leader · English · 1644 – 1718

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

Jessica Savitch

Journalist · American · 1947 – 1983

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

R. Lee Ermey

Soldier · American · b. 1944

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Harry Mathews

Author · American · b. 1930

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

John Milius

Director · American · b. 1944

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Author · American

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

Charles Darwin

Scientist · English · 1809 – 1882

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Novelist · Colombian · b. 1927

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

Novelist · Spanish · 1547 – 1616

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Tom Wilson

Cartoonist · American

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

Michael Bloomberg

Politician · American · b. 1942

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Luke Ford

Writer · Australian · b. 1966

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim

Activist · American · 1908 – 1981

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

Henrik Ibsen

Poet · Norwegian · 1828 – 1906

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour

Author · American · 1908 – 1988

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

Businessman · American · 1909 – 2005

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Nora Roberts

Author · American · b. 1950

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus

Philosopher · Greek

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

John Naisbitt

Businessman · American · b. 1929

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

Clergyman · English · 1771 – 1845

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

Explorer · Norwegian · 1914 – 2002

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Molly Ivins

Journalist · American · 1944 – 2007

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Charles Lamb

Critic · English · 1775 – 1834

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer

Poet · Greek

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Marilyn vos Savant

Writer · American · b. 1946

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

Designer · French · 1883 – 1971

You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?

Lisa Guerrero

Journalist · American · b. 1964

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Arnold Bennett

Novelist · English · 1867 – 1931

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E. B. White

Writer · American · 1899 – 1985

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

Chris Patten

Politician · British · b. 1944

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

Norman Rockwell

Artist · American · 1894 – 1978

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Bob Taft

Politician · American · b. 1942

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

Neale Donald Walsch

Author

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · American · 1809 – 1849

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

Toni Morrison

Novelist · American · b. 1931

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

John Berger

Artist · English · b. 1926

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

Artist · American · b. 1969

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Clergyman · American

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Lynda Barry

Cartoonist · American · b. 1956

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