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Anon.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Benjamin Franklin

???when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no bat

William Faulkner

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Thomas Mann

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

M Scott Peck

Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire pistols.

Evelyn Underhill

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William Shakespeare

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Henry Van Dyke

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Judith Wright

Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways pass by, Love stays.

Edward Young

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Tennessee Williams

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!

Delmore Schwartz

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

David Russell

The Present is a Point just passed.

John B. Priestly

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

Pericles

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

William Penn

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

M. Scott Peck

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Henry Austin Dobson

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Benjamin Disraeli

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Ambrose Bierce

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

James M. Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Faith Baldwin

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Saint Augustine

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Dean Acheson

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Robin Green

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Gladys Taber

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Horace Mann

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Unknown

The right time was at the crossroads With a future in his plans The wrong time reapproaches With right time's suitcase in hand The right time asks, how 's the journey The wrong time said the 'whether' turned me around. The right time, shakes his head, Shakes his hand and leaves Before the sun goes down.

Richard Milhous Nixon

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)

Geoffrey Neighor

ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time.

Will Rogers

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Gloria Naylor

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Earl Nightingale

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Aristotle

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

James Arthur Baldwin

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I lived on a planet that had two suns---regular sun and 'rogue' sun. That way, when somebody asked me what time it was, I'd say, 'Regular time' And they'd say, 'Yeah.' And I'd say, 'Sorry, all I have is rogue time.' It'd be fun to be a stuck-up rogue-time guy.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Coco Chanel

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Charles Dickens

'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'

Miguel de Cervantes

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Charles Dickens

'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'

Abraham Lincoln

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

William Shakespeare

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

M Scott Peck

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.

Nelson Mendela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Delmore Schwartz

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

John Dean

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Bo Bennett

Avoiding the phrase ???I don???t have time...???, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Mark Twain

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun.

Erich Fromm

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

Simeon Strunsky

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Edwin Teale

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Voltaire

'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'

Anthony D'Angelo

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Henry Austin Dobson

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Stephen King

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Jewel

I'm becoming more and more myself with time, I guess that's what grace is, the refinement of your soul through time.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

William Jefferson Clinton

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America.

John Updike

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

HERRICK: _To Virgins to Make Much of Time._

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.

Gary Player

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

Honore' de Balzac

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

"Leapers do it time after time after time..." -- Mike Gaines

Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generou

Counting time is not so important as making time count.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

"I will drink no Beer before it's time....It's Time!

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I wasted time, now time doth waste me.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contempt

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

"Time. Thought I'd made friend with time." - Tori Amos

il faut laisser du temps au temps (you have to give time time - approximate translation)

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

"Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so." -- Ford Prefect

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

"Counting time is not so important as making time count."

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

"Time to hit prime time bitch!"-Freddy Krueger

"Time is. Time was. Time is past."

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, th

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as ha

"A time to mourn, and a time to dance." -- Ecclesiastes 3:1

"A time to weep, and a time to laugh." -- Ecclesiastes 3:1

"A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which was planted."

"R2 has been known to make mistakes. From time to time." -- C3PO

"I write recursive functions all the time ime me e me ime time"

"A time to kill, and a time to heal." -- Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Of course Artoo has been known to make mistakes..from time to time.."