Time Quotes - Page 36

• Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Details, Stealing, Greedy

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.100, A&C Black

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• The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

  Thomas More

  Real, Thinking, Mind

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

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• You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

  Martin Amis

  Fighting, Numbers, Way

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Mar 18, 2012

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• Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Real, Healing, Past

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Age, Vices

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy

  Dervla Murphy

  Spirit, Humans, Human Spirit

  1968 In Ethiopia with a Mule.

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• Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

  Howard Nemerov

  Children, War, Snow

  1960 New Poems,'The View from an Attic Window'.

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• A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

  O. Henry

  Funny, Art, Humor

  Sixes and Sevens,'Makes The Whole World Kin' (1911).

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• Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

  Steven Wright

  Sorry, Mind, Venus

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• The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

  Tobias Smollett

  Support, Monsters, Body

  'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker' (1771) vol. 1, letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May

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• The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, Rose, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

  Carson McCullers

  Running, World, Idiot

  "The Mortgaged Heart".

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• La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Morality, Morale, Eloquence

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• Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Sorrow, Today

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Kindness, Flower, First Love

  'Love and Age' (1860)

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• A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

  Vladimir Peniakoff

  Army, Thinking, Messages

  Private Army (1950) pt. 2, ch. 5

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• Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

  Adrienne Rich

  Years, Missing, Odd

  1978 The Dream of a Common Language,'Twenty-One Love Poems, III'.

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• You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Darkness, Druids

  1916 'Break of Day in theTrenches'.

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• Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Growth, Decay, Earth

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Weight, Speak

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

  Christina Rossetti

  Ivy, Perfect, Rose

  'Oh Roses for the Flush'

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• We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Long, Moments, Masters

  Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", Third Edition, 1980.

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• Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fate, Destiny, Eternal Love

  1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.4, l.119-20.

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• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  Zona Gale

  Stars, Sunset, Sleep

  "Friendship Village Love Stories".

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