Their Time Quotes
374 Their Time quotes by 328 unique authors
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Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
— Mercedes Lackey
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The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
— George Bernard Shaw
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But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who…
— Terry Pratchett
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We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
— Philip Pullman
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the…
— Emily Post
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on…
— E L Konigsburg
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You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope…
— Walter Kaufmann
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I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
— Jose Saramago
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I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining…
— Arthur Golden
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
— Alice Walker
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There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim…
— Katherine Dunn
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Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.
— Neil Gaiman
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Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up…
— John Stuart Mill
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The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.
— Neil Gaiman
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I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with…
— Osamu Dazai
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I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.
— Nick Hornby
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