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

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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O, call back yesterday, bid time return

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What is past is prologue.

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

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Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Time Quotes , Hero Quotes

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Time Quotes , Moving Quotes

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Time Quotes , Rolling Quotes

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Hours Quotes

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

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Occupation is the scythe of time.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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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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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Pace Quotes

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

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