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never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHL We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.
WILLY WONKA Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand s...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Facto...
ROALD DAHL Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
BILL GATES We did so well. We did things that we've never done before. I had so much fun. To see the kids accom...
COREY MEDEIROS Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to thos...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so h...
CHARLES KURALT So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.
WILLY WONKA If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited ...
JOHN GLENN Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-...
RUSSELL BAKER I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so lit...
PHIL MCGRAW During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just ...
ANDY HERTZFELD Bailey gets to the line so much, we had to spend a little bit more time on that in practice.
DON LIPPI People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close tie...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM Never have so many people, made so much money with so little talent.
ROBERT POZEN I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to...
ANN RICHARDS Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
HELEN KELLER Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
HELEN KELLER If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
GAYLORD NELSON He certainly is a multiplicity of persona, so one never knows which one is the real Franklin.
GORDON WOOD And with the extra time off we had, we got to lift more, so I think we'll be stronger. Before, we we...
AARON SHEA So little time, so little to do.
OSCAR LEVANT So little time, so little to do
OSCAR LEVANT It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to I...
KIRSTIE ALLEY He had never tried them before, so we stopped. We are teaching him to gamble, which probably is not ...
TOM VINCENT Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in...
HERMAN MELVILLE My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachu...
MIKE WALLACE We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL So little time and so little to do.
OSCAR LEVANT Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID GERGEN So little done, so much to do.
CECIL RHODES Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and ...
GEORGE WILL Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way...
PETE DU PONT He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devot...
CHARLES DICKENS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched p...
WALTER LIPPMANN I've had so much of you in such little time that I shouldn't be suffering from withdrawal!
AHMED MOSTAFA I don't know what to say, so far... there is some evidence which say that "Reincarnation", exist, bu...
DEYTH BANGER Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can hav...
PABLO PICASSO Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can hav...
EDWARD L. BERNAYS I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
BOB EDWARDS Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do somet...
DANIEL O'BRIEN There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more o...
CAROL LEIFER I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT All I ask is that they go in if I give them a description of her and look for her, ... Now they tell...
SO COLEMAN In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place ...
PETER SO Having those fumbles in the last game was shocking, ... This isn't something the coaches are ignorin...
SO COLEMAN Cheung Kong was up HK$4.75 in London trade on Friday, so Hong Kong investors are catching up.
JAMES SO Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level.
JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th...
JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being...
JAMES SO The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that ...
JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da...
JAMES SO After rallying to 18,000 and then being sold off the market is now trying to re-establish a level of...
JAMES SO As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want...
SO TAGUCHI Never in recent history has so much government money been put into so many programs with so little o...
JAMES WAGONER Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
DAVE FOLEY We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
DAN QUINN My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES Every time I had a thought, I was praying, I've never prayed so much in my life.
JANE POWER So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not t...
AMY CARMICHAEL I wish we had more time here other than just two days because there's so much to do here.
LAURA WEISS How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
NOAM CHOMSKY We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
― LeBron James, Shooting Stars
LEBRON JAMES We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have been asked to do so much with so little for so long th...
UNKNOWN So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED TENNYSON Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
KATHARINE WHITEHORN I've never had anything to do with anything in the nation before, so it's kind of cool to have my na...
RYAN KANE We were getting used to it. We practiced it all week and we had seen it before, so we pretty much kn...
CASSIE PROPER Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON We had very little time -- Bob and Felt in the garage together had very little time to have meetings...
CARL BERNSTEIN Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that ne...
CECIL BEATON For me, I'd be missing so much school to leave school so much earlier means making up so much homewo...
LIZ JOHNSON Mat drills can improve their quickness so much. It also (addresses) intensity. Boatman never had any...
JEFF BOWDEN I feel like I have put more work in mentally and physically, in every which way and I've never cared...
ANDY RODDICK We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of...
CHARLES DICKENS If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.
PHYLICIA RASHAD Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE President Obama did something that no Democrat's done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a m...
SHERROD BROWN We have never done this before. We were a little apprehensive. But we had a great student.
MARY SHELTON It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...
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