Best His Time Thoughts
280 His Time quotes by 245 unique authors
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
— Friedrich Schiller
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his…
— William Shakespeare
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what…
— Harry S. Truman
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
— Edgard Varese
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
— Orson Welles
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I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.
— Ricky Williams
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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
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Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
— Donnie Yen
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It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason…
— Francis Collins
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A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor.…
— Matthew Woodring Stover
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he…
— William Shakespeare
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
— Victor Hugo
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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
— E. M. Forster
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All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in…
— Washington Irving
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From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his…
— Milan Kundera
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
— Raymond Chandler
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The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them…
— Ayn Rand
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As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a…
— Diana Gabaldon
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...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked,…
— Martin Amis
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Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by…
— Rick Riordan
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[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use…
— Harry S. Truman
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort…
— Kami Garcia
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