Time Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

  Thomas Browne

  Thinking, Long, World

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194

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• Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Perception, Novelists, Different

  Yasunari Kawabata (1996). “Beauty and Sadness”, Vintage Books

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Memories, Writing History, Agree Upon

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• It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2016

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• These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Danger, Calamity, Series

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• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints, Hamlet Revenge

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

  William Shakespeare

  Karma, Revenge, Eternity

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]

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• Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Forks

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Creative, Suffering, Lost

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• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  Walt Whitman

  Time Management, Accepting

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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• An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Cities, Age, Hours

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• And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Oxen, Behinds

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

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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

  Flower, Hands, Today

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• Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

  Robert Breault

  Eight, Cities, Deja Vu

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• I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

  John Mason Brown

  Life, Success, Waiting

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• How noiseless falls the foot of time!

  William Spencer

  Fall, Feet

  William Robert Spencer (1835). “Poems”, p.194

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• Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

  William Spencer

  Flower, Fall, Feet

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• ... life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life Is Too Short, Japanese Art, Whole

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• You may ask me for anything you like except time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May, Ask Me, Asks

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• Better never than late.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Chaos

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• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Transcendentalism, Anticipation

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

  James Taylor

  Secret, Musician, Life Is

  Song: Secret O' Life, Album: JT, 1977

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• I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Giving Up, Track And Field

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Oxen, Years

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

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