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Quotes About Time

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.
~ Johnny Carson
The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.
~ Laura Linney
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
~ Leif Enger
The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.
~ Lucille Kallen
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.
~ Mark Beeson
I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
~ Nick Hornby
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
~ Nick Hornby
These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.
~ Richard D. Zanuck
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
~ Richard Hell
The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.
~ Stephen King
You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.
~ Tom Dreesen
The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.
~ Elizabeth II
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
~ Saint Augustine
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
~ Ludwig Borne
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
~ Yahoo Serious
It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
~ Ira Glass
You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!
~ Eva Longoria
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.
~ Art Buchwald
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
~ George Foreman
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson