Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
— Zig Ziglar
Most Powerful Four Times quotations
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant.
The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.
A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair?
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.
I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.
It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks.
It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
John and I weren't capable of getting back to Kenwood from there, so the four of us sat up for the rest of the night as the walls moved, the plants talked, other people looked like ghouls and time stood still. It was horrific: I hated the lack of control and not knowing what was going on or what would happen next.
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet.
It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.
No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night.
There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time.
Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country... How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?
After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see.
He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.
Each day means a new twenty-four hours.
Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day
Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.
People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good.
The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.