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Quotes About Time

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ Philip James Bailey
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
~ Publilius Syrus
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
~ Og Mandino
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
~ Ray Bradbury
Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.
~ Rick Warren
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
~ Robert Breault
You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
~ John Frusciante
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
~ John Irving
You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.
~ John Irving
You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.
~ John Rzeznik
One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.
~ Josh Radnor
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.
~ Kiki Dimoula
Pretty much I don't regret anything that has happened in my life. One thing is I wish I could have spent more time with my mama and my pa.
~ Kurupt
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
~ Laurens van der Post
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
~ Lewis Mumford
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
~ Lionel Shriver
I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.
~ Matthew Rhys
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
~ Lou Reed
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
~ Francis Bacon
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
~ T.S. Eliot
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
~ Quentin Tarantino
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
~ Galina Vishnevskaya
It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
~ Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
Time is long but life is short.
~ Stevie Wonder