quotes about Time
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
-- A. A. Milne -
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
-- A. E. Housman -
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : Uncommon Law (1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?"
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Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
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The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
-- Abraham Cowley -
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
-- Adam Hochschild -
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.
-- Adam Skirving -
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One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.28
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See how time makes all grief decay.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218
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Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
-- Adrienne Rich -
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
-- Adyashanti -
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
-- Aeschylus -
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
-- Agatha Christie -
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
-- Agathon -
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
-- Al Gore -
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Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
-- Al PurdySource : 1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).
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I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
-- Alan Bennett -
That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
-- Alan BoldSource : Alan Norman Bold (1983). “In this corner: selected poems, 1963-1983”
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
-- Alan Jay LernerSource : 1958 'I Remember it Well', in the musical Gigi (music by Frederick Loewe).
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
-- Alan LightmanSource : Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage
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We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
-- Albert Camus -
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
-- Albert Camus -
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
-- Albert Camus -
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
-- Albert Camus -
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
-- Albert Camus -
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
-- Albert Camus -
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein -
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
-- Albert Einstein -
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
-- Albert Einstein -
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein -
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It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
-- Albert Einstein -
It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
-- Albert Einstein -
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
-- Albert Einstein -
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.
-- Alex Agase -
Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.
-- Alex Dow -
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
-- Alex Haley -
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Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
-- Alex WinterSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.
-- Alexander Kotov -
The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.
-- Alexander Kotov -
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If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
-- Alexander Pope -
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
-- Alexander Pope -
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
-- Alexander Pope -
Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.
-- Alexander SmithSource : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.47
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
-- Alexander Smith -
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-- Alfred North WhiteheadSource : Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.
-- Alfred SutroSource : Alfred Sutro (1912). “The Open Door: A Duologue in One Act”
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For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.
-- Alice Morse Earle -
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For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.
-- Alison UttleySource : 1948 Carts and Candlesticks.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
-- Alvin AileySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
-- Alvin Ailey -
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
-- Alvin Toffler -