Time

Time, time, time
See what's be
come of me

Bangles

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How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before
it's afternoon
December is here before it's June
My goodness
How the time has flewn
How did it get so late so soon?

—Dr. Seuss

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Ticking away the moments
that make up a dull day

Pink Floyd

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The trouble is,
you think you have time.

—Jack Kornfield

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Suddenly my clocks agree.
One has been stopped
for several months,
but twice a day
they have this tender moment.

Braided Creek

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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

—William Shakespeare

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The two most powerful warriors are Patience and Time.

—Leo Tolstoy

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Life, if well lived, is long enough.

—Seneca

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Centuries of centuries, and only in the present do things happen.

—Jorge Luis Borges

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The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.

—C.S. Lewis

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We all have our time machines. Some take us back—they’re called memories. Some take us forward—they’re called dreams.

—Jeremy Irons

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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

—William Shakespeare

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If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

—Emmet Fox

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

—Margaret Peters

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Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.

—Harvey MacKay

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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

—Michael Altshuler

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I wish I could turn back the clock and find you sooner so I can love you longer.

—Unknown

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

—Alice Walker

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

—Charles Buxton

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There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

—Calvin and Hobbes

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You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.

—Bonnie Prudden

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There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

—Sarah Dessen

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

—Coco Chanel

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Time is the longest distance between two places.

—Tennessee Williams

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To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.

—Emily Dickinson

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Lost time is never found again.

—Benjamin Franklin

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

—Albert Einstein

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The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you.

—Unknown

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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

—Jorge Luis Borges

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Time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals the details for itself.

—Khaled Hosseini

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Clocks slay time. Only when the clock stops does time come to life.

—William Faulkner

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Punctuality is the thief of time.

—Oscar Wilde

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With endless time, nothing is special.

—Mitch Albom

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Time itself comes in drops.

—William James

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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

—Michelle Obama

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It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

—Anna Wintour

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I don't need time, I need a deadline.

—Duke Ellington

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There’s time enough, but none to spare.

—Charles W. Chesnutt

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Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

—Haruki Murakami

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Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.

—Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.

—Hans Christian Andersen

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

—Chinese Proverb

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Time is long but life is short.

—Stevie Wonder

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It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

—J.K. Rowling

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Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.

—Art Buchwald

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Is it tomorrow,
or just the end of time?

Jimi Hendrix

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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

—Albert Einstein

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