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Quotes About Time

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.
~ Eliza Griswold
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.
~ Ellen Goodman
I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.
~ Elton John
The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.
~ Emily Mortimer
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
~ Eric Hoffer
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
~ Evan Williams
A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
~ Feist
With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.
~ Feist
No court can make time stand still.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?
~ Francesca Lia Block
Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.
~ Frank Partnoy
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
~ Gabriela Sabatini
At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.
~ George Harrison
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost
~ George Horne
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
~ George MacDonald
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.
~ George Orwell
Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!
~ George Pope Morris
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
~ George Sarton
It's exciting for me to see [Laura Bush] busy and out there enjoying what she's doing. But we always make time to be with each other as well.
~ George W. Bush