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Quotes About Time

this time has finished me.
~ Charles Bukowski
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.
~ Charles Clayton Morrison
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
~ Charles de Lint
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.
~ Charles Dickens
Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.
~ Charles Dickens
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
~ Charles Dickens
When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
~ Charles Finch
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.
~ Charles Frazier
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
~ Charles Kimbrough
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
~ Charles Lamb
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
~ Charles Lapworth
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
~ Charles Lyell
Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.
~ Charles Spurgeon
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
~ Charles Stross
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.
~ Charles Stross
During the holidays it's like cooking central time so keeping it safe is an important part.
~ Charlie Barnett
We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet.
~ Charlie Benante
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
~ Charlie Kaufman
The last time I used? What do you mean? I used my toaster this morning.
~ Charlie Sheen