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Letter "A" » against time
«In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
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«You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
| Keywords:
afford, against time, available, balancing, conditions, Goal setting, resources, setting, timing
«When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Determination,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
against time, get into, give up, hold on, hold tight, minute, tide, tight, tighter, till
«I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.»
Author: Kim Basinger
(Actress)
| About:
Intuition
| Keywords:
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«To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go»
Author: Mary Oliver
| About:
Living,
Love
| Keywords:
able, abler, ablest, against, against time, boned, bones, comes, depends, go, go to, hold, in this, In this World, knowing, let, let it go, let me know, live, live in, mortal, must, on it, own, The Time, things, this, three, threes, time, Time Life, To do, To Live, when the time comes
«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Acts, Against the man, against time, belief, diverse, forth, Human history, ideal, improve, injustice, injustices, numberless, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sends, shaped, stands, strikes, strike out, tiniest
«Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
against time, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, powerless, tooth
«The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
against time, aimed, defending, fighting, one time, oppression, oppressive, scoundrels, spends, stopped
«There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
against time, coming, for good, for good measure, Gandalf, grey, have-not, measured, not yet, powers, world power
«Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.»
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