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Time Quotes by Daniel Handler
- It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
- Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
- It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have…
- This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to…
- Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to…
- Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely…
- The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week,…
- If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
- Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing…
- Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for…
- It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is…
- Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
- It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is…
- A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing…
- The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!
- There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages…
- Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look…
- I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be…
- I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire…
- In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar