All Quotes

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
‐‐ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
‐‐ Benjamin Booker

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

The time away from the family is the hardest part of the job. I have a little apartment in D.C., and I have to tell you, I'm happy when I get to go home to Georgia. My wife and I are also talking about whether we can afford the apartment or not. If not, I guess I'd sleep in my office like a lot of my colleagues do.
‐‐ Austin Scott

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
‐‐ Dwight Schultz

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
‐‐ Lajos Kossuth

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.
‐‐ Anita Sarkeesian

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
‐‐ Gustav Heinemann

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
‐‐ Billy Graham

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
‐‐ Huey Long

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
‐‐ John Jay Hooker

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
‐‐ Jerry Yang

The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end his irresponsible allegations of injustices at the facility, which operates in a framework that respects the rule of law, keeps terrorists off American soil, and bolsters our national security.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

The time has come for professional jurors.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
‐‐ Norm Dicks

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.
‐‐ Roy Barnes

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.
‐‐ Steve Stockman

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
‐‐ Mahmoud Abbas

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
‐‐ Joseph Rotblat

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
‐‐ Bao Dai

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.
‐‐ Dianne Feinstein

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
‐‐ James D. Watson

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
‐‐ Claude C. Hopkins

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.
‐‐ Graham Nelson

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!
‐‐ John Bruton

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
‐‐ Anna Neagle

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.
‐‐ Alex Ferguson

The time I kill is killing me.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.
‐‐ Jessica Alba

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
‐‐ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.
‐‐ Annette Bening

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
‐‐ Charley Pride