"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

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"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

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

Woody Allen, American Director

Time, Nature

"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

Time, Future, Present, Philosophy

"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

Time, Regret, Today, Future

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

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Time, Choice, Priority, Life

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

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Time, Life, Existence, Flow

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Time, Decision, Live, Responsibility

"Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Time, Eternity, Day, Values

"Time heals all wounds."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Future

"Today is tomorrow's stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Time, Wisdom, Preparation, Opportunity

"There is always a time to move on."

Jock Stein, Scottish Celebrity

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"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

Man

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

Authority

"The Thames is liquid history."

History

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

Duty

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

Power

"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing."

Boys

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

Politics

"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."

Nation

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

Experience

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

Lifestyle