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• Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Death, Time, Islamic

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• Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Doe, Return, Remember

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• Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Running, Time

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• How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

  Max Muller

  Beautiful, Thinking, May

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Running, Men, Use

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Empty, Lost, Time Left

  LIFE magazine, April 22, 1957.

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• Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

  George Horne

  Time, Employment, Hours

  George Horne, William Jones (1831). “The works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, studies, and writings”, p.292

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• After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

  Steven Herrick

  War, Matter, Lost

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• And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...I don't know, it would feel like home.

  Morgan Parker

  Eye, Home, Soul

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• I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

  Elias Hicks

  Eugenics, Delight, Mysterious

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223

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• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Purpose, Littles

  "The Autobiography and Other Writings".

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• One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

  Haruki Murakami

  Opportunity, Jail, Long

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• I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

  James Ellroy

  Drinking, Later In Life, House

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• Silence is not lost time.

  Gustavo Cerati

  Silence, Lost, Silence Is

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• In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the nature of the book he has to write, just at the moment when his advancing years and declining health have made him doubt that he's going to live long enough to write it. So he has to write against death like Scheherazade.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

  Melissa Bean

  Stress, Community, Proud

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• I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a big rift. Then you get older and you realize it's not. But for a while there, we really didn't have much to do with each other - mostly because I should have been a better older brother. I'm making up for lost time. I want that in print so she can read it.

  Peter Vack

  Brother, Growing Up, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Art, Patriotic, Exercise

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• Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Beautiful, Country, Gratitude

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• I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.

  Elton John

  Sex, Men, Wish

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

  Michael Keaton

  Anesthesia, Wake Up, Kind

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• By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

  Michael Lesy

  Memories, Sake, Firsts

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• I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

  Jim Davis

  Able, Stuff, Nine

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