1. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. - Samuel Johnson
2. By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. - Samuel Johnson
3. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. - Samuel Johnson
4. The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar. - Sojourner Truth
5. Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race. - Marcus Garvey
6. Time as he grows old teaches all things. - Aeschylus
7. By Time and Age full many things are taught. - Aeschylus
8. I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude. - Kurt Cobain
9. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. - Kurt Cobain
10. I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a front man. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time. - Kurt Cobain
11. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. - Kurt Cobain
12. Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. - Kurt Cobain
13. 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' - J. R. R. Tolkien
14. October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. - Thomas Merton
15. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
16. We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. - Thomas Merton
17. It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. - Alice Walker
18. I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. - Alice Walker
19. For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. - Alice Walker
20. I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. - Alice Walker
21. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. - Alice Walker
22. I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. - Alice Walker
23. June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. - Alice Walker
24. I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. - Alice Walker
25. Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. - Alice Walker
26. I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. - Alice Walker
27. A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. - Zora Neale Hurston
28. It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. - Nikola Tesla
29. If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. - Leo Tolstoy
30. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy
31. I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.' - James Carville
32. During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests. - James Carville
33. Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over. - James Carville
34. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash
35. If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
36. Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. - John Ruskin
37. All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. - John Ruskin
38. Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. - John Ruskin
39. Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. - John Ruskin
40. Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. - Louisa May Alcott
41. Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. - Carol Burnett
42. Comedy is tragedy - plus time. - Carol Burnett
43. I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. - Carol Burnett
44. I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time. - Carol Burnett
45. There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. - Alexis de Tocqueville
46. It's my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it's been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I'm just one of seven members, and I'm inspired by the others all the time. - RM
47. I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on. - Brad Pitt
48. By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense. - Brad Pitt
49. When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up. - Brad Pitt
50. What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with. - Brad Pitt
51. The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead. - Brad Pitt
52. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself. - Brad Pitt
53. It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses. - Brad Pitt
54. The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. - Brad Pitt
55. You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time. - Brad Pitt
56. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. - Bobby Knight
57. When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! - Bobby Knight
58. I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump. - Bobby Knight
59. I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don't understand why their players association condones that. - Bobby Knight
60. Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. - Jules Verne
61. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide
62. I don't need equal time, I am equal time! - Rush Limbaugh
63. The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester. - Rush Limbaugh
64. Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party. - Rush Limbaugh
65. I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?' - Rush Limbaugh
66. The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were. - Rush Limbaugh
67. You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government. - Rush Limbaugh
68. Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle. - Rush Limbaugh
69. I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work. - Rush Limbaugh
70. There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them. - Rush Limbaugh
71. Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back. - Rush Limbaugh
72. Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time. - Zendaya
73. I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on. - Martin Scorsese
. I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. - Martin Scorsese
75. I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something. - Martin Scorsese
76. You never know how much time you have left. - Martin Scorsese
77. One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. - Martin Scorsese
78. If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah! - Martin Scorsese
79. Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know. - Martin Scorsese
80. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. - Laurence J. Peter
81. I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. - Kirk Douglas
82. I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. - Kirk Douglas
83. You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. - John Oliver
84. I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life? - Shah Rukh Khan
85. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London
86. Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. - Dean Kamen
. Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. - Charles Lamb
88. I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me. - Lupita Nyong'o
. Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right. - River Phoenix
90. People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix. - River Phoenix
. It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. - Johann Sebastian Bach
92. The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. - Billie Joe Armstrong
93. Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. - Mary Schmich
94. I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop. - Rickey Henderson
95. All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. - Benjamin Spock
96. I just live one day at a time. - Rick James
97. If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you. - Regina King
98. Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name. - Regina King
99. Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game. - Nancy Lopez
100. It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and
they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't
get enough of it. - Jann Wenner
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