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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

Milos Forman

Director · Czechoslovakian · b. 1932

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Muhammad Iqbal

Poet · Pakistani · 1877 – 1938

Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

J. D. Hayworth

Politician · American · b. 1958

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Poet · Greek

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Leader · English · b. 1925

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

President · American · 1809 – 1865

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Elias Canetti

Author · Swiss · 1905 – 1994

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Ernest Mandel

Author · Belgian · 1923 – 1995

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

Cartoonist · American

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates

Businessman · American · b. 1955

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Writer · French

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Writer · English

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

James Broughton

Director · American · 1913 – 1999

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Mann

Writer · German · 1875 – 1955

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

Dennis Banks

Educator · American · b. 1932

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

John Barton

Poet · Canadian

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

George Crumb

Composer · American · b. 1929

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architect · American · 1867 – 1959

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Penelope Lively

Author · English · b. 1933

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Russell Banks

Author · American · b. 1940

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

Novelist · French · 1821 – 1880

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

Joan D. Vinge

Author · American · b. 1948

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Author · American · b. 1935

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Writer · American · 1809 – 1894

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

John Dewey

Philosopher · American · 1859 – 1952

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Eric Hoffer

Writer · American · 1902 – 1983

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Leader · English · b. 1925

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Sally Quinn

Journalist · American · b. 1941

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Marilyn Hacker

Poet · American · b. 1942

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Chanakya

Politician · Indian

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Jean de la Bruyere

Philosopher · French

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

David Antin

Poet · American · b. 1932

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

T. S. Eliot

Poet · American · 1888 – 1965

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

Poet · French · 1821 – 1867

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Author · American · 1920 – 1994

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Chanakya

Politician · Indian

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Bill Watterson

Cartoonist · American · b. 1958

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

Judge · American · 1872 – 1961

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Philosopher · Spanish · 1883 – 1955

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

Writer · American · 1899 – 1985

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

Georg Buchner

Dramatist · German · 1813 – 1837

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

Brian Mulroney

Statesman · Canadian · b. 1939

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