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Time Quotes by Robert Breault

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Robert Breault reflects on how we often wish we could change past choices and feel nostalgic for things that never happened. He notes that waiting for the right moment can waste time, especially when we arrive too early or let procrastination win. He also finds calm in quiet moments with his cat, where conversation resumes without missing a beat.

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If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

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Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

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In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

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There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

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Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

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The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

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Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

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You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

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I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet…

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The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.

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History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

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Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

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There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have…

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Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

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I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents…

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If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact…

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Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

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Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

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Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.

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The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

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There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

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What are memories but dreams of a better past.

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Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

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Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

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One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

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It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

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If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

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The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

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The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

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You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

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Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

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If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as…

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The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

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For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

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There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to…

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There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

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I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

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It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.

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It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in…

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You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet…

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a…

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.