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Quotations by Subject: Time
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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.: Baltasar Gracian
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.: Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.: Jim Bishop
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!': John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.: Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.: Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.: Max Frisch
So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.: Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.: Robert Byrne
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.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.: Rodin (1840 - 1917)
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.: Scottish Proverb
People find life entirely too time-consuming.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.: Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930


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