Time
- And what if you were told: one more hour?--Elias Canetti (The Secret Heart of the Clock)
- As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.--John Mason
- At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.--Ovid
- The best thing to spend on your children is your time.--Louise Hart
- 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 Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.--H. Jackson Brown
- Each of us has a bank account of time, into which a deposit is made and withdrawals are taken. No matter how depleted that account was at the end of yesterday, today it is chock-full of moments to cherish, memories to make, and minute after minute to spend wisely or not.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: Remember These Things - 3-12-2004)
- Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?--Anonymous
- God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.--Marianne Williamson
- Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.--Elizabeth Bowen
- Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.--Will Rogers
- How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to waste time: social media.--Matt Haig (on Twitter, 10/18/2016)
- I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.--Lord Chesterfield
- I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.--Bernard Berenson
- If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and our remorse will not permit us to enjoy them? What use is an extra year or two to the man who "kills" what time he has?--David Neiswanger
- The irreversibility [of time] is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.--Ilya Prigogine (in The Big Bang Never Happened by Lerner)
- It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.--Jim Bishop
- It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.--Anna Quindlen (A Short Guide to a Happy Life)
- It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.--J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
- Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no procrastination. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.--Philip Chesterfield
- Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.--Jesse Conrad
- The less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.--Andy Rooney
- Life offers two great gifts--time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.--Richard I. Winword
- Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.--Samuel Smiles
- Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.--Thomas P. Murphy
- 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.--Erich Fromm
- Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.-- Earl Nightingale
- Never say that you have no time. On the whole it is those who are busiest who can make time for yet more, and those who love more leisure time who refused to do something when asked. What we lack is not time, but heart.--Henri Boulard
- Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning … Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.--James Long
- One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.--Harold V. Melchert
- Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.--Robert Anthony
- The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.--Lesley Poles Hartley (The Go-Between)
- Patience and time do more than strength or passion.--Jean de LaFontaine
- People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey ... stuff.--Steven Moffat ("Blink")
- The reality is that time is absolutely indispensable to family life. It is the framework around which all other benefits are built. ... It takes time to teach, pray, hug, apologize.----Ray Guarendi (Advice Worth Ignoring: How Tuning Out the Experts Can Make You a Better Parent)
- There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.--Tennessee Williams (Camino Real)
- There's time enough, but none to spare.--Charles W. Chestnutt
- Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.--Robert Herrick (Hesperides)
- Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.--Henry Austin Dobson (The Paradox of Time)
- Time has no divisions to mark its passage.. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.--Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain)
- Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.--Blaise Pascal (Pensees)
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.--Marcus Aurelius
- Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.--George Harrison
- Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.--George Sand
- Time is amazing... it has only one thing to say to anyone... "When?"--Doug Firebaugh
- Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.--John Randolph
- Time is like a movie. All people see it in its full length. Some people fast forward or rewind to their favorite times and skip the bad. Others are stuck watching only bad acting. Some people direct and all want to be stars but in the end everyone gets cut from the script.--Anonymous
- Time is like a snowflake--it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.--Anonymous
- Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of...--Cecelia Ahern
- Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 4, 2003)
- Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.--Ruth Carter Stapleton
- 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
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.--Peter F. Drucker
- Time is the wisest counsellor.--Pericles
- 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 not.--Henry van Dyke
- Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.--John Archibald Wheeler (The American Journal of Physics, 1978)
- Time is what we want most, but ... what we use worst.--William Penn
- Time rends the soul. Through the rent, eternity enters.--Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace)
- Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.--Ivan Turgenev
- Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth.--Thomas Huxley
- Time's glory is to command contending kings, to unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.--William Shakespeare (The Rape of Lucrece)
- To know where one is going and what one wishes – this is order ... to organize one’s life to distribute one’s time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.--Henri F. Amiel
- Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.--Nikos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ)
- The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.--Leo Tolstoy
- We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies.--John O'Donohue (Speaking of Faith interview, Feb. 28, 2008)
- We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.--Alice Bloch
- We shall never have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.--Arnold Bennett
- We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.--Philip James Bailey
- We will always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!--Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)
- What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter ... month, years, centuries ... these are but the arbitrary and outward signs ... the measure of time, not time itself.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.--—Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life)
- Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.--Anonymous
- You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.--Charles Buxton
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