Nearly Holiday Time Quotes

She'd gotten even prettier over the years.
And now she was in his house.
And he had no idea if this was the best thing to happen to him or the stupidest thing he'd ever done.
Kelsey watched Nate go, thinking this might've been the worst decision she'd ever made. Okay, so it wasn't nearly as bad as that time she'd decided to go on the Sky Screamer at the amusement park when she was drunk. ~ Cindi Madsen

At my father's club, sitting before the fire, we had spoken of 'moments made eternity', meaning what are called timeless moments, moments precisely without the pressure of time--moments that might be called, indeed, timeful moments. And we had clearly understood that the pressure of time was our nearly inescapable awareness of an approaching terminus-the bell about to ring, the holiday about to end, the going down from Oxford foreseen...Life itself is pressured by death, the final terminus. Socrates refused to delay his own death for a few more hours: perhaps he knew that those few hours under the pressure of time would be worth little....Awareness of duration, of terminus, spoils Now. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.' ~ David Ignatius

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?' ~ Diana Ross

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~ J.B. Priestley

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home. ~ Johnny Vegas

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally. ~ Jasmine Guinness

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate. ~ Dick Cavett

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing. ~ Kurt Busch

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time. ~ Ruth Brown

Some companies like Airbnb and Instragram spend a long time trying new iterations until they achieve what growth hackers call Product Market Fit (PMF); ~ Ryan Holiday

Holiday Greetings shared through eCards are good #Netiquette. Make a list and check it twice. NetworkEtiquette.net ~ David Chiles

The concerted effort to minimize Christmas has resulted in it being our national Happy Holiday holiday. The Christmas season is now the holiday season. Christmas parties are now holiday parties. Christmas is a time for giving and receiving presents and in many homes, nothing more. Who is this fellow, Jesus Christ, anyway? ~ Lyn Nofziger

Perseverance. Force of purpose. Indomitable will. Those traits were once uniquely part of the American DNA. But they've been weakening for some time. ~ Ryan Holiday

Each time, you'll learn something. Each time, you'll develop strength, wisdom, and perspective. Each time, a little more of the competition falls away. Until all that is left is you: the best version of you. ~ Ryan Holiday

In order for a holiday to be a great holiday, it must somehow involve water-related activity, because water is a magician who relaxes our soul and body! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday tables, religious services, and celebrations. ~ Geoff Stults

If you're not still learning, you're already dying." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 104 ~ Ryan Holiday

That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter. ~ Robert Graves

The only time that love takes a holiday is when we go on vacation together. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. ~ George Bernard Shaw

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. ~ Ernest Istook

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season! ~ T.A. Barron

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself. ~ Susannah McCorkle

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer. ~ Chris Kilham

We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy. ~ Ian Axel

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ~ Billie Holiday

Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. ~ William Shakespeare

I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time. ~ Helen Sharman

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA). ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. ~ Douglas Coupland

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season. ~ Julieanne O'Connor

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so. ~ Kate Walsh

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ... ~ Katharine Tynan

Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday. ~ Laurence Fox

we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations." How ~ Ryan Holiday

Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. ~ Ryan Holiday

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger. ~ Ryan Holiday

After all that had occurred, shouldn't she appear more…ruined? ~ Jenny Holiday

False ideas about yourself destroy you. For ~ Ryan Holiday

Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat. ~ Ryan Holiday

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit. ~ Gary Barlow

In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest. ~ Ryan Holiday

Snark encourages the fakeness and stupidity it is supposedly trying to rail against. ~ Ryan Holiday

understand the range of potential outcomes and know that they are not all good ~ Ryan Holiday

sometimes being superficial - taking things only at first glance - is the most profound approach. ~ Ryan Holiday

Seize this moment to deploy the plan that has long sat dormant in your head. ~ Ryan Holiday

Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven. ~ Ryan Holiday

In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer. ~ Ryan Holiday

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. ~ Billie Holiday

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time. ~ David Letterman

you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control. ~ Ryan Holiday

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun. ~ Louisa May Alcott

No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions. ~ Ryan Holiday

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it ... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on. ~ Calvin Coolidge

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen. ~ Morris Chestnut

Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics. ~ Ryan Holiday

Richard Branson likes to say, is that "business opportunities are like buses; there's always another coming around. ~ Ryan Holiday

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes. ~ Dan Harmon

Think progress, not perfection. ~ Ryan Holiday

I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations. ~ David Niu

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday. ~ Ashley Jensen

Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever. ~ Ryan Holiday

If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.
- Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy ~ Ryan Holiday

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17. ~ Joe Elliott

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.' ~ Pink

Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line, ~ Ryan Holiday

No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed. ~ Ryan Holiday

It's three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will. ~ Ryan Holiday

If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet ~ Ryan Holiday

It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows," Epictetus says. ~ Ryan Holiday

Growth hacking really is a mindset rather than a tool kit. ~ Ryan Holiday

If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity." Just ~ Ryan Holiday

We've gone on holiday by mistake ~ Bruce Robinson

Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority. ~ Ryan Holiday

Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 74 ~ Ryan Holiday

Life speeds on the bold and favors the brave. ~ Ryan Holiday

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery. ~ Amanda Craig

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information? ~ Ryan Holiday

You've got to have something to eat ~ Billie Holiday

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves. ~ Drake Bell

Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path. ~ Ryan Holiday

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Every obstacle is unique to each of us. But the responses they elicit are the same: Fear. Frustration. Confusion. Helplessness. Depression. Anger. ~ Ryan Holiday

attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously. ~ Ryan Holiday

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry. ~ Anthony Jeselnik

And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice! - EURIPIDES ~ Ryan Holiday

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday ~ Paulo Coelho

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. ~ Billie Holiday

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally. ~ Kylie Minogue

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether what you're going through is your fault or your problem doesn't matter, because it's yours to deal with right now. ~ Ryan Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. ~ Billie Holiday

Outward appearances are deceptive. What's within them, beneath them, is what matters. ~ Ryan Holiday

Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect and friendship of my training partners, who were mostly Japanese men sincerely surprised to find themselves training with an American woman. ~ Linda Holiday

which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" - EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W ~ Ryan Holiday

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. ~ Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing. ~ Billie Holiday

I never sing a song the same way twice. ~ Billie Holiday

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn. ~ Coolio