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“I got picked up in an ambulance, sat in hospital for two hours and never did the tour.”
Leus du Plooy (born 1995) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leus du Plooy interview: 'It took me time to get over Middlesex relegation', April 2024, The Standard by MALIK OUZIA
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Oscar Wilde (misattributed) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889)
“Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.”
Winston Churchill (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success. — Ernest Shackleton”
Ernest Shackleton (misattributed) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The first published appearance of this "ad" is on page 53 of Quit You Like Men by Carl Hopkins Elmore (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944), appearing to be an admitted paraphrasing of Shackleton. ("Sir Ernest Shack…
“Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.”
Thomas Jefferson (misattributed) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This particular quote was attributed to Jefferson on the Internet starting from 2008 and first appearing in print from 2013 but while he may have grown hemp, he never actually smoked it. According to the Jefferson Libra…
“O years, gone down into the past, What pleasant memories come to me Of your untroubled days of peace, And hours almost of ecstasy.”
Phoebe Cary (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Weaving has been the thread that has held my life together for more than fifty years. One has to fill the minutes, hours, days and years that are given to you with something, and it seems that weaving chose me. In essence, I see my life as the latest iteration in the long line of weavers that stretch back beyond recorded history. I feel blessed to be in this lineage.”
Bhakti Ziek (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.”
John Frederick Boyes (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve met so many people who say, ‘Oh, I’m not interested in money.’ Yet they’ll work at a job for eight hours a day. That’s a denial of truth. If they weren’t interested in money, then why are they working?”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) said by 1754 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) said by 1800 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) said by 1844 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it?--No! 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The cold winds swept the mountain-height, And pathless was the dreary wild, And 'mid the cheerless hours of night A mother wandered with her child: As through the drifting snows she press'd, The babe was sleeping on her breast.”
Seba Smith (1792–1868) said by 1868 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.”
Goethe (1749–1832) said by 1832 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In ancient times all things were cheape 'Tis good to look before you leape When come is ripe 'tis time to reape.”
Martin Parker (1624–1647) first seen 1630 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roxburghe Ballads (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.”
George Gershwin (1898–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Merle Armitage Accent on America (New York: E. Weyhe, 1944) p. 292.
“It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.”
Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, May 17, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 166
“Many times I been arrested, that might be the only thing I haven't tried. Stay tuned to TMZ. If I get pulled over one more motherfucking time, that's how the fuck I'm getting out of my car, just, "No, no, no. We already did this shit." Just saying, all got to be able to laugh.”
Katt Williams (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many times have you become very anxious when forced to wait? There are a million things to see. There are a million beautiful sounds to hear. Open your eyes, see--as if for the first time. Find peace in moments of waiting, and you will witness that all life can be perfectly beautiful.”
Scott Shaw (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science raises itself above all Ages and all Times, embracing and apprehending the ONE UNCHANGING TIME as the higher source of all Ages and Epochs, and grasping that vast idea in its free, unbounded comprehension.”
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) said by 1814 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that is a big problem with a lot of Christians," Paul begins. "We want to feel special. And there are times when it does, you know. But not all the time. Sometimes life just feels like life. We have to put our faith in God.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often wondered what I would do if I were ever traded because it happened many, many times, and it was "part of the game." And then suddenly it happened to me. I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in the world to at that time what was probably the least liked, and by God, this is America, and I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.”
Curt Flood (1938–1997) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview from Ken Burns' 1994 documentary Baseball
“She’s a nice girl – I just feel very honoured that she wanted to sing my song. I used to scream for her in Times Square and now I work for her. When I was 13 she was the most provocative performer of my time. I love her so much! Britney certainly doesn’t need any freakin’ tips from me! Britney Spears is the queen of pop. I was learning from her.”
“While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do everything which within us lies to obtain Ireland the fullest measure of her rights.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those gathered at the Annual Correspondents' Dinner, or their Christmas party, are not the country's natural aristocracy, but its authentic Idiocracy. No matter how poor their predictive powers, no matter how many times they get it wrong—in war and in peace—the presstitutes always find time for this orgy of self-praise.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." The American Thinker, May 8, 2017.
“To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themselves as rational beings!”
Afrikan Spir (1837–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where do you go when hard times hit? Most of the time, our tendency is to enter our internal cave…we naturally shut down, withdraw from it all, and try to figure things out on our own, reemerging from life when we have some sense of centeredness.”
John Townsend (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christianity, and religion in general, is dying in America. (The exceptions are an increase in Islam, probably due to immigration, and in Buddhism, a basically godless religion.) The decline is due largely to a loss of faith among young people, as we’ve seen several times before. Religion wanes one corpse at a time.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christianity and religion in general are dying in America, especially among Hispanics" July 18, 2021
“there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.”
Justin Bieber (born 1994) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message to his fans via Twitter 26 February 2012
“I've been keeping a diary since I was about 11. If you don't keep a diary everything washes away. And you can live everything three times: you live it when you live it, you live it when you write it down, and you live it a third time when you re-read it. Though I have to say rereading my diary for publication was a depressing experience. You shouldn't look back.”
Gyles Brandreth (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is because all my time is taken up by the war. You should keep in mind that there are times when the rifle is more important than the pen.”
Bai Chongxi (1893–1966) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bai Chongxi cited in "China’s Muslim General" on Shanghai 1937, 26 February 2013
“I was trying to prove that I was the Clash and it wasn't Mick (Jones). I learned that that was kind of dumb. I learned that it wasn't anybody, except maybe a great chemistry between us four, and I really learned it was over the day we sacked Topper, and not the day we sacked Mick. There was quite some time between them. We played a whole tour between those times. But it was the day we sacked Tops.”
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”
Donald Knuth (born 1938) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant in Knuth, "Structured Programming with Goto Statements". Computing Surveys 6:4 (December 1974), pp. 261–301, §1.
“I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.”
Linus Torvalds (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 林纳斯·托瓦兹 (zh)
“11) There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ronald Reagan (6 December 1983), cited by Paul Slansky, The Clothes Have No Emperor
“Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost — and the time to account for past sins is approaching.”
Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similies (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.”
Samuel Butler (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown. And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'.”
“These dramatic events come at a time when Americans are also facing challenges here at home. I know that for many of you these are difficult times. And I want all Americans to know that I am committed to attacking our economic problems at home with the same determination we brought to winning the cold war.”
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.”
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.”
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their…they talk about morals, but they don't do anything to help the poor. The last time I saw that, helping the poor was somethin' that was mentioned 300…3000 times in the Bible; I've yet to find a reference to gay marriage in the Bible.”
Howard Dean (born 1948) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Daily Show, June 23, 2005.
“Worlds sometimes shudder and turn inside their axes, and this was such a time. Flagg felt it, but did not grasp it. The salvation of all that is good is only this — at times of great import, evil beings sometimes fall strangely blind.”
Stephen King (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source