John Branch Quotes

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready.

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

My work has always been the product of my time.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

I spend most of my time writing.

The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.