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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was up so early.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

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

“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, pass'd over to the end they were created, would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 3” - 1595

“Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come; love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's thievish progress to eternity.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end; each changing place with that which goes before, in sequent toil all forwards do contend.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

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