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Quotes About Time

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
~ Gertrude Stein
During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.
~ Lindsay Lohan
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
~ James M. Barrie
The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.
~ Charles Simic
Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.
~ John P. Kotter
Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.
~ Philip Zimbardo
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
~ Alan Hirsch
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.
~ Francis Picabia
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
Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
~ Iain Banks
Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
~ C. S. Lewis
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
~ Gladys Taber
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
~ H. L. Mencken
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
~ Erma Bombeck
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
~ William Hazlitt
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
~ Sylvia Plath
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
~ Robert Redford
I think there's nothing wrong with eating all the time. At least i'm not doing anything illegal.
~ Niall Horan
Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
~ David Tennant
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
~ Nick Murray
Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
~ Warren Buffett