"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."

Time, Knowledge, Direction, Wind

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"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"Time,Crawling so slowly, numbing our minds,Boredom, lack of ambition, lost.Passion and it speeds along.The fire burns again.Time,Fast and filled.With passion, no matter how fast time flies away,I am content.Alive."

Avina Celeste, American Writer

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"Time is inexplicable because it moves " clicks away " at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. 'Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.' Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Time, Heaven, Eternity, Order

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Explore more quotes by John Millington Synge

"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."

Travel, First, Nothing, Right, Sight

"A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."

Music, Will, Words

"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."

World,

"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."

Writing, Pen, Reading, Writer

"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

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"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."

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"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."

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"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."

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"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."

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"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."

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