Best Times Quotes

• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

  Lee Iacocca

  Time, Discipline, Giving

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

  Julia Roberts

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Great Year

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• The only thing that matters is the theater!

  Lily Rabe

  Time, Matter, Management

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Time, Acceptance

  CNN Newsroom With Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon, transcripts.cnn.com. November 02, 2006.

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

  Theophrastus

  Inspirational, Basketball, Time

  Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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