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Quotes About Time

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.
~ Paulo Coelho
He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.
~ Paulo Coelho
He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.
~ Paulo Coelho
Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.
~ Pearl Bailey
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
~ Pema Chodron
O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.
~ Pete Sampras
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
~ Peter Ackroyd
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
~ Peter Bergen
I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
~ Peter Greenaway
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
~ Peter Morgan
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
~ Petrarch
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
~ Petrarch
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
~ Philip Larkin
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.
~ Philip Larkin
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.
~ Philip Levine
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
~ Philip Pullman
Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.
~ Olivier Martinez
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
~ Oscar Wilde