“The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.”
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Others on Time
Virgil
6 quotes“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
Stephen King
5 quotes“Time's the thief of memory”
Shakespeare
5 quotes“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4 quotes“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
Maggie Stiefvater
4 quotes“Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.”
Haruki Murakami
4 quotes“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
Pericles
3 quotes“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
Aeschylus
3 quotes“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
Charles Lamb
3 quotes“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.”
Saint Augustine
3 quotes“What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 quotes“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.”
John Wooden
3 quotes“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”