Best Own Time Lines
197 Own Time quotes by 177 unique authors
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Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time." [...] "This is…
— Richelle Mead
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I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
— Samantha Hunt
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A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.
— Robert Musil
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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
— Mark Twain
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Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its…
— Jim Jarmusch
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I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get…
— Tamora Pierce
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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around…
— Ray Bradbury
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He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,…
— Michael Cunningham
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Hey Mason, wipe that drool off you face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time. -Rose to Mason
— Richelle Mead
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This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each…
— Sarah Dessen
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When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own…
— Susan Sontag
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my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my…
— Haruki Murakami
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.
— Karen Marie Moning
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on…
— Ezra Pound
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
— Daniel Barenboim
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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time…
— Denis Waitley
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"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They…
— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
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