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DIOGENES Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
DIOGENES Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
THEOPHRASTUS Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend
THEOPHRASTUS Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Such a funny thing, time. You spend your whole life wishing there was more or less of it, never real...
MORYAH DEMOTT If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it wa...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a ric...
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DONALD SPARROW A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
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CHRISTINA ENGELA The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio wit...
CHARLIE WORSHAM A lot of the time it's just that person-to-person connection between the artists that ends up being ...
BRENT GRULKE The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that...
COLIN CUNNINGHAM The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE That Mississippi mud is perhaps the most valuable thing we have in Louisiana at this time.
HARRY ROBERTS I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
CHRIS PAUL It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
DOLLY PARTON The main thing that drew me to him was that he was a beautiful writer, not just the clarity but the ...
CHARLES FRIED Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person w...
KAREN JOY FOWLER Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest i...
JIM ROHN My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I coul...
JOHN CENA He just loved it — that was his favorite thing, doing the calculations himself.
ALICE RIVLIN I go to conferences with the idea that if you get one valuable thing that it was worth your time. I ...
KRISTINE JENNINGS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER When it was over he (Freeman) thanked me for doing a good job. I did the best I could, but obviously...
MACK GARNER If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.
STEPHANIE KLEIN Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER 'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy ...
RHYS DARBY I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the m...
THOM BROWNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I love working with friends; it's my favorite thing to do. I've found over the years that th...
ADAM SCOTT I was laughed at by everyone upon every occasion. But no one knew or guessed that if there was a man...
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JOHN DRYDEN That's the most important piece of evidence, ... If there's one thing that could have convinced folk...
MICHAEL FREEMAN 'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent c...
FRANCIS QUARLES My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learn...
RITA DOVE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS 'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... e...
CHARLYNE YI Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...
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MARY BALOGH I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prov...
ERNEST HOLMES When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, an...
OLIVIA WILDE It was a heartfelt expression from the speaker that we have to work in a unified fashion, or the who...
JOE KNOLLENBERG It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of th...
CONAN O'BRIEN 1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER By the end of our time here, saying goodbye, Lynn and I were clinging together, crying. It was a hor...
ELLEN FROHNMAYER Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of...
GEORGE GREY What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed l...
FANNIE LOU HAMER What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed lik...
FANNIE LOU HAMER Time is the most valuable resource that God gave mankind
SUNDAY ADELAJA We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the...
RALPH BOSTON There was simply this bullying, reduction of 25 percent, which most of us in the community was malic...
ERIC MURRAY Most of this was true, ... But the most important thing was that Conboy wanted a promise that there ...
WILLIAM MILLS If there was one thing he knew about himself, it was that he could take any good thing and make a me...
CASSANDRA CLARE HOLLY BLACK The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you g...
ERIC LUDY Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER You could say it was spectacular. That was the biggest one I've ever done. Most of the others rolled...
CHARLES BARKLEY SR If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backya...
VANILLA ICE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
BRIT MARLING Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you ...
PHILIP ROTH Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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LAERTIUS DIOGENES None but the brave deserve the fair.
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DIOGENES OF SINOPE The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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