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Quotes About Time

Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.
~ E.M. Forster
The tide had begun to ebb. Margaret leant over the parapet and watched it sadly. Mr. Wilcox had forgotten his wife, Helen her lover; she herself was probably forgetting. Every one moving. Is it worth while attempting the past when there is this continual flux even in the hearts of men?
~ E.M. Forster
History develops, art stands still.
~ E.M. Forster
She was descending quicker than most women into the colourless years, and the look in her eyes confessed it.
~ E.M. Forster
He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace.
~ E.M. Forster
The night received her, as it had received Miss Bartlett thirty years before.
~ E.M. Forster
You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.
~ E.M. Forster
She thought of her distant youth. The world was not so humorous then, but it had been more important.
~ E.M. Forster
This is unfair," she complained. "You have called me across the world to hear your story, and hear it I will. Tell me - as briefly as possible, for this is a disastrous waste of time - tell me how you returned to civilization.
~ E.M. Forster
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don't go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it's almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.
~ E.R. Frank
For my face?" "It has been my fortune before to-night, Bunny. It has also given me more confidence than you are likely to believe at this time of day. You stimulate me more than you think." "Your gallery and your prompter's box in one?
~ E.W. Hornung
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
~ E.W. Howe
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
~ E.W. Howe
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
~ Eadweard Muybridge
She was glad of a moment without talk. For this, after all, was the time she loved Waikiki best. So brief, this tropic dusk, so quick the coming of the soft alluring night. The carpet of the waters, apple-green by day, crimson and gold at sunset, was a deep purple now. On
~ Earl Derr Biggers
Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
~ Earl Nightingale
one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less
~ Earl Nightingale
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway...
~ Earl Nightingale
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
~ Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
~ Earl Nightingale
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.
~ Earl of Chesterfield