Allotted Quotes
71 Allotted quotes by 64 unique authors
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Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had…
— Jack Miles
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I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right…
— Martin Heidegger
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it…
— Helen Keller
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
— Gore Vidal
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do,…
— Pat Conroy
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So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's…
— Haruki Murakami
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Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a…
— Haruki Murakami
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And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and…
— Wendy Mass
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Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who…
— Stephen Levine
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How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?
— Jerry Spinelli
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You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord…
— Truman Capote
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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
— Mary Balogh
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I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as…
— Ray Bradbury
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His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
— Haruki Murakami
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Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and…
— Dallin H. Oaks
Who Wrote These Allotted Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 71 Allotted Quotes, led by these top contributors: