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• Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

  Jorge Luis Borges
  Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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• Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

  Louise Erdrich
  American author (1954 - )
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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

  Henry van Dyke
  American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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• Time is waste of money.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

  Meister Eckhart
  German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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• Time itself comes in drops.
  

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  American historian (1914 - 2004)
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• Time makes more converts than reason.
  

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• Time means a lot to me because, you see, i, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  Striking Thoughts (2000)

  Bruce Lee
  Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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• Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

  Anita Brookner
  British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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• Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

  The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) 96

  Mohsin Hamid
  British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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• Time passes irrevocably.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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• Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams
  American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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• Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

  Jon Lithgow
   
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• Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

  Robert Half
  American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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Subjects in these quotes:

• temporalities
• celebrities
• simplifying
• irrevocably
• everything
• infinitely

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