Lewis Carroll Quotes, Time Quotes, Queens Quotes

"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Time Quotes

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Time Quotes , Believe Quotes

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Time Quotes , Fire Quotes

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Summer Quotes , Time Quotes

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Time Quotes , Glasses Quotes

But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

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

I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Time Quotes , Men Quotes

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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What else may hap, to time I will commit.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , May Quotes

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Time Quotes , Grace Quotes

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

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But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Time Quotes , Yesterday Quotes

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Time Quotes , Dark Quotes