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• I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Silly, Thinking, Wife

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• Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.26, Bantam

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• They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.

  Billy Joel

  Believe, Sadness, Eye

  "Summer, Highland Falls". Song by Billy Joel, 1976.

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• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Passion, Alive

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• Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Time, Differences

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• There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reason, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

  Josh Groban

  Beautiful, Morning, Eye

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• And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, Common Humanity

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• The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Parent, Forgiving, Adults

  Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

  Mitch Albom

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Faces, Saws

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International

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• Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Winning, Men, Tvs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Best Friend, Girl, Sweet

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into internal pollution," I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing. "Props," Ranger told me. "Didn't want to look out of place." I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman.

  Janet Evanovich

  Coffee, Eyebrows, Would Be

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Perfect, Hunters

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• Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Ghost

  Aldous Huxley (1931). “The cicadas and other poems”

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• Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

  Loretta Lynn

  Careers, Stage, Feels

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.12, Vintage

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• Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fun, Self, Play

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• Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

  Mary Balogh

  Past, Motive, Prove

  Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.153, Dell

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• Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

  Robin Hobb

  Thinking, Done, Eternal

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.647, Spectra

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• The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at a single point in an archangel’s life. It is legend that ambrosia only rises when an archangel loves true.

  Nalini Singh

  Angel, Substance, Body

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.252, Penguin

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• If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Moving, Boards

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• It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

  John Marsden

  Beautiful, Pain, Block

  John Marsden (2013). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

  Mitch Albom

  Granted, More Time, Wanted

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Grief, Bereavement

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