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• If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

  Anna Neagle

  Goal, Passings, Ifs

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• Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Excellent, Pastime

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

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• It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

  Pierre Curie

  Love, Dream, Soulmate

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• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

  Marc Bolan

  Time, People, Able

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• Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Regret, Loneliness, Hockey

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

  Sarah Manguso

  Running, Privilege, Wave

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• I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

  Jackson Browne

  Time, Morning, Eye

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• Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean Girls, Worry, Trying

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• I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

  Junot Diaz

  Men, Thinking, Being Me

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.

  Robin Wasserman

  Sleep, Events, Moments

  Robin Wasserman (2010). “Skinned”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

  Alexander Theroux

  Time, Memories, Sadness

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• She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Years, Passing By

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.76, Penguin

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• Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

  Gary Comer

  Inspiring, Thinking, Worry

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• Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

  Martin Heidegger

  Passing Away, Constant, Passings

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  Nancy Astor

  Funny, Women, Empowering

  My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

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• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

  Martin Amis

  Time, Moving, Sparks

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Add, Phrases

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• But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

  Anna Neagle

  Opportunity, Thinking, Waiting

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Sadness, Cities

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than I felt when I was a young old man. Now I want to live as long as I can.

  Jonathan W. Galassi

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

  David Hume

  Real, Men, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.123, VM eBooks

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• Now, a lot of people look for answers in spirituality or different texts, but for me this is life. This is what life is: the passage of time. It's not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing. I know people think of my work as spiritual, but really it's just that I consume time. That's all.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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