"Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything.……" — Arnold Bennett
"Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it."
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82 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to…
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin…
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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