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Quotes About Time

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
~ H. G. Wells
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
~ Hanif Kureishi
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
~ Hannes Alfven
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
~ Heinrich Heine
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."
~ Henri Nouwen
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
~ Henry Fuseli
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
~ Herbert Spencer
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
~ Herodotus
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
~ Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
~ Ian Mckellen
I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
~ Ira Gershwin
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!
~ Jack Bauer
You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
~ James Gleick
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
~ James Gould Cozzens
We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.
~ James Lileks
We should count time by heart-throbs.
~ James Martineau
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
~ James Russell Lowell
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
~ James Taylor