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Quotes About Time

Fish and guests in three days are stale.
~ John Lyly
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
~ John Malkovich
If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
~ John Marsden
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
~ John Masefield
Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.
~ John Newman
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
~ John Ruskin
I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.
~ John Stamos
life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
~ John Steinbeck
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
~ John Sterling
Our lives fade behind us before we die.
~ John Updike
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
~ John Wooden
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.
~ Jon Weisman
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.
~ Jonathan Franzen
It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.
~ Jonathan Hull
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
~ Jonathan Nolan
I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
~ Joseph Addison
One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.
~ Joseph Henshaw
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
~ Joshua Foer
Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.
~ Joy Baluch
I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.
~ Joy Bryant
There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.
~ Joyce Carol Oates