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"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

Katharine Butler Hathaway, American Author

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"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

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

Woody Allen, American Director

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Time, Cause, Sleep, Wine

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

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

"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

"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."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

"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

"For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair."

Tim Yeo, British Politician

Time, Conservative, First, Party

"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

Explore more quotes by Katharine Butler Hathaway

"A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change."

"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."

"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."

"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."

"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

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