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Quotes About Time

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
~ Truman Capote
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
~ Tryon Edwards
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
~ Viktor Schauberger
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
~ Walt Whitman
A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.
~ Walter D. Wetherell
Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
~ Willem de Kooning
It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
~ William Morris
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
~ William S. Burroughs
Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
~ William Shakespeare
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
~ Winona LaDuke
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
~ Xenophanes
The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
~ Yukio Mishima
Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.
~ Zig Ziglar
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
~ Eleanor Porter
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
~ Elias Canetti
But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.
~ Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
~ Erin McKean
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.
~ Esperanza Spalding
Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
~ Eudora Welty
We haven't the time to take out time.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
~ Euripides