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The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

James Loeb

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Samuel Johnson

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Mao Tse-Tung

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

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

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

AnaÔs Nin

Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.

Unknown

What fools indeed we morals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!

John Kendrick Bangs

I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat.

Jennifer Greene Duncan

You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves.

Quoted in The Cockle Bur

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

Jan Morris

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook

Julia Child

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Jack Dann

“I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?" Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.”

Barbara Jordan

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.

Lao Tzu

Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.

Moasi

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

Stephen R. Covey

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

Brian Tracy

All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies.

Josephus

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