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• Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.

  A. A. Milne

  Snow, House, Complaining

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

  Jeff Lindsay

  Philosophical, Men, Fire

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.75, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Thoughtful, Ungrateful, Use

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• I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

  William Faulkner

  Littles, Time Left, Snob

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• We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

  Debbie Harry

  Littles, Problem, Enjoy

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• Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Littles, Eternity

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Everyday Things, Ideas

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• I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

  Paula Creamer

  Home, Golf, Practice

  "Q&A With LPGA Star Paula Creamer". Bleacher Report interview, bleacherreport.com.

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• Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, Littles, Busy

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• I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

  Bill Bryson

  Stupid, Long, People

  "A Walk in the Woods". Book by Bill Bryson. Chapter 4 (p. 51), 1997.

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• For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Kids, Winning

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• The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Possible And Impossible, Littles, Achieving The Impossible

  Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

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• I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Air, Feet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Happy, Time

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• So many books, so little time.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

  Steve Yzerman

  Time, Ice, Littles

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Cancer, Fate, Survival

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are orphans who can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake; for it brings them more work than they care to do, leaving them but little time for their own pleasure.

  Ellen G. White

  Leaving, Care, Littles

  "Review & Herald Articles, Book I of IV".

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• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  Hal Sparks

  Believe, People, Littles

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• I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

  Regis Philbin

  Couple, Farewell, Years

  "Jerry Seinfeld interviews Regis Philbin on his television career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

  Trey Parker

  Real, Thinking, World

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