"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."

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"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There is a time when even justice brings harm."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."

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"I will never retire."

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"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."

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"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."

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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."

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"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

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"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."

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