Alan Lightman Quotes, Time Quotes, People Quotes

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Strong Quotes

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

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Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

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Tags : Adam Grant Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Time Quotes

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Life Quotes , Time Quotes

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Time Quotes , Winter Quotes

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Time Quotes , Men Quotes

See how time makes all grief decay.

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Tags : Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes , Time Quotes , Grief Quotes

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , God Quotes , Time Quotes

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Time Quotes , Giving Quotes

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Brother Quotes , Time Quotes

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Time Quotes , Age Quotes

Geological time is not money.

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Time Quotes , Years Quotes

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Quotes , Time Quotes

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Desert Quotes

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Time Quotes

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Time Quotes , Men Quotes

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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