Quotes of: Time-people Keyword

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

The Handmaid's Tale

It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The Irrational Knot

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

I'll Give You the Sun

Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

Jesus the Christ

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

People aren't always who they seem, Detective. Am I anything like you thought?" "No," I admitted. You're a million times better than I could have imagined.

Shattered Glass

What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods

Meridian

What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.

Leaders' Watchwords

Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It’s a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon.

Master of the Abyss

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

The Setting Sun

People ate everyday, and often times they didn't pause when standing in the fresh produce section of the grocery store to realize the magnitude of God's earth that feeds them.

A Season for Tending

The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.

Tenryu-ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden

Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

Old Ways

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

Pippi Longstocking

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Palimpsest

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess