Concept Of Time Quotes

• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Past, Gone

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.264

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Procrastination, Past

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Wish, Ask Me

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2011). “Confessions”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

  Robert Lanza

  Mean, Linear, Concepts

  "What Is It Like After You Die?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Past, Stopping

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  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

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• The concept of time shuts off eternity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eternity, Concepts

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

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

  Paracelsus

  Time, Wind, Design

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• For time is the longest distance between two places.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Distance, Two

  The Glass Menagerie (1945) p. 123

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• 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.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

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

  Doug Larson

  Time, Sleep, Eight

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

  J. B. Priestley

  Time, Travel, Holiday

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• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

  Paracelsus

  Inspirational, Wind, Time Passing

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.79, Princeton University Press

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Opportunity, Numbers

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• The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

  Antonio Porchia

  Time, Flower, Hands

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• Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Restless, Constant

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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