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Time Quotes by E L Doctorow
- It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they…
- You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex…
- We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
- Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at…
- Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
- I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to…
- A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — 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
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani