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Quotes About Time

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old Age.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Time takes away the grief of men.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
~ Desmond Morris
human memory is short, and history always repeats itself.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Each moment is a fruit of the past and seed of future.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
So it has been before. So it will be again.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
human memory is short, and history always repeats itself." ? Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Bintang yang sama tidak akan pernah jatuh untuk kedua kalinya
~ Dewi Lestari - Perahu Kertas
I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.
~ Diablo Cody
I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?" And he says, How much time do you want?
~ Diamanda Galas
All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its coastal waters. My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it. Being 'over seventy' is being old: suddenly I was aground on that fact and saw that the time had come to size it up.
~ Diana Athill
Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the experience, however intense, would be of value many years later. But there it has remained, tucked away in hidden bits of my mind and now it comes, shouldering aside even the most passionate love affairs.
~ Diana Athill
For 78 years, four months and three weeks I've been meaning to overcome this fatal habit of postponing the boring by quickly doing something nice instead -- oh dear!
~ Diana Athill
It won't get any easier in five minutes." When faced with something you really don't want to do but know you should—like
~ Diana Delonzor
Never plan to be exactly on time. Always plan to be early. Doing so will usually get you there just in time. -
~ Diana Delonzor
Another woman gave her boyfriend a ten-minute back rub every day he managed to arrive for dinner by 7:00.
~ Diana Delonzor
Diana Delonzor
~ lackadaisical
When you wake up in the morning, you choose between lying in bed another ten minutes and getting to work on time.
~ Diana Delonzor
the future has already happened, just like the past. And one day you will see that there are no answers, only the places we make.
~ Diana Evans
All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.
~ Diana Palmer