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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Peter DruckerRead
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca The YoungerRead
The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
Samuel BeckettRead
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
Samuel BeckettRead
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
Samuel BeckettRead
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
Charles Caleb ColtonRead
A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
Ray BradburyRead
Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals
H. L. MenckenRead
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
David BowieRead
Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
Paulo CoelhoRead
One can only forget about time by making use of it.
Charles BaudelaireRead
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
HoraceRead
Time be thine,_x000D_ _x000D_ And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
William ShakespeareRead
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
William FaulknerRead
Time, though in Eternity, applied_x000D_ _x000D_ To motion, measures all things durable_x000D_ _x000D_ By present, past, and future.
John MiltonRead
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
Cesare PaveseRead
My father Time is weak and gray_x000D_ _x000D_ With waiting for a better day;_x000D_ _x000D_ See how idiot-like he stands,_x000D_ _x000D_ Fumbling with his palsied hands!
Percy Bysshe ShelleyRead
Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
Frank HerbertRead
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
Jean De La BruyereRead
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
Jean De La BruyereRead
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
ChanakyaRead

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