Months quotes

Months

677 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic

"Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
Months

"I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Months

"I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
Months

"Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves."

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Brian May Musician, Astrophysicist
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"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal"

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti."

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Months

"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."

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"The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds."

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David Muir Journalist
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"Here in Havana where families make about $20 a month, fewer than 5 percent have Internet in their homes, they are prepared. But it's hard to predict how sweeping this change will be, if the people of Cuba are even ready for it."

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