- If I had known I was going to live this long (100yrs), I would have taken better care of myself
― Eubie Blake - If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.
― Elbert Hubbard - In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
― Terry Pratchett - But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
― Benjamin Disraeli - In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which time kills us.
― Osbert Sitwell - It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
― Rose Kennedy - It is a mark of insincerity to spend one’s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low class teashops.
― Ernest Bramah - It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
― Ben Jonson - 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 - It’s hard being left behind….. It’s hard to be the one who stays.
― Audrey Niffenegger - Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision.
― Napoleon Hill - Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
― Edna Ferber - Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
― Dion Boucicault - Moments are like flashes of lightening. You don’t know how long they will last, you don’t know what they hold and you don’t know what will become of it.
― Anonymous - No man, who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
― Abraham Lincoln - Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears by lending them minutes and charging them years.
― Oliver Wendell Holmes - Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all! his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
― Charles Dickens - Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
― Rick Riordan - Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
― Robert Brault - Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and sparkspattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving.
― Martin Amis
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