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“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“Time makes more converts than reason.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful...” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“In time we hate that which we often fear.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Time, and Industry, produce every day new knowledge.” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.” Charles Darwin, “On The Origin of Species” - 1859

“But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“Time is more important to me than distance.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” Terry Pratchett, “Small Gods” - 1992

“Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Forever is composed of nows” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.” Haruki Murakami, “Dance Dance Dance” - 1994

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” Neil Gaiman, “Anansi Boys” - 2005

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us—to bore ourselves?” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil” - 1886

“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield” - 1850

“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.” Neil Gaiman, “Neverwhere” - 1996

“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I’ll be all right as long as there’s a lending library” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“No one has time any more for anyone else.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“you can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

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