“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.”
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Virgil
6 quotes“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
Shakespeare
5 quotes“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
Stephen King
5 quotes“Time's the thief of memory”
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.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4 quotes“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
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.”
John Wooden
3 quotes“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Ovid
3 quotes“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so”
Leonardo da Vinci
3 quotes“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present ti...”
William Faulkner
3 quotes“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
T. S. Eliot
3 quotes“You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.”