Wordgrove Post & Review

This Edition:   time

Quoted in The Grove:
Time is the longest distance between two places.
~Tennessee Williams

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
~Robert Brault

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
~Maria Edgeworth

EndQuote:
There’s time enough, but none to spare.
~Charles W Chesnutt

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Prewritten Prompt for 09/28:   return

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~Albert Einstein

Time brings all things to pass.
~Aeschylus

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~Alan Watts

Time — the abundance of now.
~Terri Guillemets

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
~Alan Watts

Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.
~Mooji

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
~Jack Kerouac

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
~Eckhart Tolle

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
~Rodney Yee

There is no first or last in Forever. It is Centre there all the time.
~Emily Dickinson

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.
~Ken Wilber

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
~Christopher Alexander

The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end… when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Posted From The Grove

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
~Paul Valery

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
~Herbert Hoover

It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
~Herman Cain

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
~Glenn Beck

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
~Pat Robertson

Sometimes – history needs a push.
~Vladimir Lenin

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
~Gore Vidal

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
~Jimmy Carter

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
~H G Wells

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
~Dick Cheney

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
~William J Clinton

After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.
~Jim Harrison

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
~Hubert H Humphrey

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You know, sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing
~George McGovern

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
~W C Fields

In time of peace prepare for war.
~Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
~Howard Thurman

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
~Georg C Lichtenberg

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
~Phil Ochs

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Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
~Mike Tyson

Republicans many times can’t get the words ‘equality of opportunity’ out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
~Jack Kemp

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
~Frederick Douglass

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~Matthew Harmer:  Inside Time   (4:30)   coping with lockdown with images, a poem
https://vimeo.com/433939850

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~LifeHunters:  Life Lessons from 100-Year-Olds   (13:29)   three with sparkling attitudes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AThycGCakk

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We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
~Charlton Ogburn

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it’s more a business that’s out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
~Yahoo Serious

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Different times need different types of leadership.
~Park Geun-hye

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If you want work well done, select a Busy Man — the Other Kind has No Time.
~Elbert Hubbard

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.
~Robert Brault

I said I did not have time, but to what did I give the time, and was it a fair exchange?
~Muriel Strode

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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
~Jesse Jackson

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
~James Humes

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The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
~George S Patton

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)
~Spanish proverb

Time is the wisest counselor of all.
~Pericles

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that’s just the way the real world is.
~Carly Fiorina

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
~Frank Dane

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
~Stephen R Covey

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
~J Paul Getty

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
~Napoleon Hill

Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
~Frank A Clark

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
~Thomas A Edison

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
~Vince Cable

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VIDEO:
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
~Hector Berlioz

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr Seuss

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
~Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

I pondered long the book of suffering, till Time stood before me saying, “There is a quicker way,” and he thrust his flaming brand against my breast.
~Muriel Strode

Oh, it was better not to be accustomed to clocks, better to know only the dawn’s blending with the sunrise and the day’s slow sinking into dark! Then one might pass smoothly into the largeness of eternity. ~Cid Ricketts Sumner

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~Dodie Smith

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Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
~Antonio Porchia

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go;
~Austin Dobson

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~Rabindranath Tagore

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
~Ian Fleming

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
~Jeremy Taylor

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
~Orhan Pamuk

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Eternity is a clock which says ‘tick’ in one century and ‘tock’ in the next.
~Author unknown

As rolling rivers never cease
To pour their currents in the sea,
So years succeeding years increase
The ocean of eternity.
~Edward George Kent

Eternity is a clock without hands.
~Author unknown

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Never here, forever there,
Where all parting, pain, and care,
And death, and time shall disappear,—
Forever there, but never here!
The horologe of Eternity
Sayeth this incessantly,—
“Forever—never!
Never—forever!”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Eternity is a clock whose pendulum says and repeats incessantly, these two words only, amid the silence of the tombs: Always, never! Never, always!
~Jacques Bridaine

“Eternity,” said he, waving his hand slowly to and fro like the pendulum of a clock, — “eternity is a clock in Heaven, whose pendulum sounds thus: Ever, Ever, Ever! and Eternity is a clock in Hell, whose pendulum sounds thus: Never, Never, Never!”
~Anonymous, Elfie in Sicily

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Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness
~Elif Safak

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago
~Victor J Stenger

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Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?
~Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
~Leo Tolstoy

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~Time Magazine:  Out Of Time   (4:27)   time tourists
https://vimeo.com/43761287

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~Alireza Ghasemi:  Lunch Time   (15:58)   foreign, for the gold
https://vimeo.com/329376106

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~Labyrinth Pictures:  Paradox   (17:32)   reality insert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnfh3qcpBxA&t=80s

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~Rusty Lake:  Paradox   (18:32)   spooky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZXFaaQJb0c

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~Dust:  A Week With Rebecca   (28:28)   robot:  to be or not to be … to fall or not to fall, in love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViPefqVtHEA&t=12s

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Thinking of the days past as—
Fallen to the waves of the river of life.
~Julia Cooley Altrocchi

Time, hurries swiftly on,
Each fleeting year seems shorter than the last,
And many hopes which cheered its opening dawn,
Are buried with the past.
~Mary Ann H Dodd Shutts

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.
~Harvey Mackay

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
~Samuel Smiles

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
~Jack London

The Old Clock on the Stairs…
By day its voice is low and light;
But in the silent dead of night,
Distinct as a passing footstep’s fall,
It echoes along the vacant hall,
Along the ceiling, along the floor,
And seems to say, at each chamber-door,—
“Forever—never!
Never—forever!”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.
~Ashley Ormon

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Days — The pages in the book of life.
~Charles Searle

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper — the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. The two kinds of social activity overlap.
~Ambrose Bierce

I don’t worry about the world coming to an end any more… The way I figure it, the world can’t come to an end today because it is already tomorrow in some other part of the world!
~Charles M Schulz  (Lucy in Peanuts)

Days are either days or daze according to the temper of the tempter. To the tempestuous, every day is different from every other day, and no day is a mere stitch in Time.
~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

Days are either days or daze according to the temper of the tempter.
To the tempestuous, every day is different from every other day,
and no day is a mere stitch in Time.
~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

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Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
~Gerard Way

We of the tribe of the unquiet heart,
We fight each day against the turns of chance;
The overwhelming tide of trivial things
That eat away the hours. The flying hours
That should be full of all life has to give.
~Jean Wright

It is the hour to be drunken!
Be drunken,
if you would not be martyred slaves of Time;
be drunken continually!
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue,
as you will.
~Charles Baudelaire

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The days, the days, the swift, mute days
That fly across our fitful ways,
That bear us through the tangled maze
We call our life, — the days! the days!
~Mary Clemmer

Man, however, seems to be the only living thing that gets tangled in time. The trees never fall behind, nor does the grass… Maybe they have better clocks than man has ever made.
~Hal Borland

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MUSIC:
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.
~Max Lucado

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
~Drew Barrymore

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Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.
~Mia Maestro

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
~Dionne Warwick

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation’s history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
~Jim DeMint

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.
~Joel Osteen

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
~Jackie Kennedy

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For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
~Doug Larson

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
~Coco Chanel

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I don’t have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you’re really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what’s the point?
~Courteney Cox

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~Henry Adams

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
~William Shenstone

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
~Ethel Barrymore

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~Rolling Stones:  Time Is On My Side   (3:00)   so young ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JforKK52WIw

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~Eric Clapton:  Tears In Heaven,  multi-star cast   (4:50)   2005 benefit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW-u4p4FkRc

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~Project Sarangi:   Tears In Heaven   (3:27)   guitar with exotic sarangi, gorgeous new sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37x-6GTZaQE

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~Cyndi Lauper:  Time After Time   (4:57)   love has limits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU

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~Michael Jackson:  Remember The Time   (9:17)   it’s about the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1o21vij5g

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~Chicago:  Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is   (3:13)   answer, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKmdfUNBHo

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~The Cars:  Good Times Roll   (3:38)   but not during COVID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2udZQpw7eo

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~BB King:  Let The Good Times Roll   (3:44)   in spite of COVID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYB5vLzEHvI

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~Green Day:  Time of Your Life   (2:31)   choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

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~The Beatles:  Yesterday,  feat. Eveningcall   (3:15)   polished
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sby4zM2p7kg

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~Joanna Wang:  Times Of Your Life   (3:13)    memories, does the past one better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76olBh3UHKA

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~Sam Hunt:  Take Your Time   (3:59)   country paladin steps up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXi6IHFHeIA

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~Billy Joel: The Longest Time   (4:04)   a capella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_XgQhMPeEQ

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~Real McCoy:  One More Time   (4:01)   danceable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EbRikt1bJo

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~Bob Dylan:  Times They Are a’Changing,  feat. Brandi Carlile   (4:36)   past anthem for the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxLECbf0nOA

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~The Rolling Stones:  The Last Time   (3:27)   in memorium: Charlie Watts – the last time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhRjvYO-WsI

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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
~Isabel Allende

It seemed as if, first in her own fire within the house, and then in the fiery haze without, she tried to discover what kind of woof Old Time, that greatest and longest-established Spinner of all, would weave from the threads he had already spun into a woman.
~Charles Dickens

I feel as if sometimes women can’t deal with what’s going on and they have no one around who actually understands.
~Diane Kruger

I blinked. Time passed… Blink, and an hour would elapse. Blink again, and a whole afternoon might go by. It was as though someone were slicing at my internal calendar with a pair of scissors, removing time.
~Abby Geni

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
~David Bailey

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
~Ernestine Rose

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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke

Timeless is the creature who is wise.
And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.
~Stevie Nicks

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees. Times can break your heart, have you begging please…Beyond the door, there’s peace I’m sure. And I know there’ll be no more tears in heaven.
~Eric Clapton

A record is a message, timeless.
~Ziggy Marley

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
~Paracelsus

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, When you fall, you fly.
~Neil Gaiman

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Here’s to the Clock!
Whose hands, we pray heaven,
When we come home at three,
Have stopped at eleven!
~Oliver Herford

And anyhow a clock is only something that you compare with your watch and find the clock is several minutes wrong.
~Ogden Nash

And there is nothing more surly
Than a watchless man who doesn’t know
whether he is late or early…
~Ogden Nash

Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.
~Emo Philips

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
~Phyllis Diller

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
~Phyllis Diller

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
~Casey Stengel

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited, but most kitchens close at ten.
~Woody Allen

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
~Groucho Marx

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.
~Fred Allen

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
~Phyllis Diller

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.
~Demetri Martin

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
~Joan Rivers

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
~Fred Allen

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.
~Robert Brault

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu.
~Robert Brault

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There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there’d be something I’d miss that was funny in the future. If there’s a chance I’m going to laugh tomorrow then I want to live to experience that.
~Dave Navarro

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
~David Hyde Pierce

Time takes away the grief of men.
~Desiderius Erasmus

Even when there are times that we’re not happy, happiness will creep in.
~Dyan Cannon

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© Silvia Trujillo

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Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.
~Charles Richards

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
~Bruce Lee

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
~Charles Darwin

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
~Thomas Jefferson

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We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
~Nelson Mandela

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~Andy Warhol

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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
~Henry Ford

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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The clock ticked on with that judicial intonation characteristic of time-pieces that measure sacred time and wasted opportunities.
~Edward Bellamy

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
~Philip Stanhope

The time I kill is killing me.
~Mason Cooley

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If you let slip time, like a neglected rose it withers on the stalk with languished head.
~John Milton

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
~Antonio Porchia

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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I am one of those lazy-butt loners who can poke my way through a day and never feel a second has been wasted.
~Tom Hanks

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
~J M Barrie

Time is the only one of life’s resources that when it’s all spent, you wish you had spent more of it foolishly.
~Robert Brault

And the old church tower, so close at hand,
Holds a clanging and busy bell
That warns my heedless ears of the hours,
—But it says that I waste ’em well.
~Jean Wright

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~Marthe Troly-Curtin

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
~Jean De La Bruyere

People who would never trespass on your property will trespass on your time, as if your time were not your property.
~Robert Brault

He who robs you of your time steals your greatest treasure.
~James Lendall Basford

Shun such as lounge through afternoons and eves,
And on thy dial write “Beware of thieves!”
Felon of minutes, never taught to feel
The worth of treasures which thy fingers steal,
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime,
But spare the right, — it holds my golden time!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~Carl Sandburg

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
~Steve Jobs

Time is a game played beautifully by children.
~Heraclitus of Ephesus

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@Writers Platform

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
~Carl Friedrich Gauss

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.
~Stephen King

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let’s not kid ourselves – all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.
~Tom Robbins

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Wonderful, unfinished volume,
Leaves on leaves of manuscript,
Written on forever, ever,
With a pen in ages dipped!…
~Sara L Vickers Oberholtzer

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
~Holbrook Jackson

How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.
~Basil Moreau

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Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
~Henri Matisse

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
~Anne Geddes

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As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
~David Friedman

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
~Miles Davis

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Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
~Eric Roberts

There’s too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
~Jeremy Renner

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Glass Table @Wordgrove:

~Greenie

A Dream You Dream

Into my thoughts you move
Silently as you go
Tickling and teasing softly
Moving me so
Finding secrets hidden there
Even I did not see
Bringing out wings that spread
Showing mine to me
Soaring with me oh so high
Joys written on my face
Am I just a dream you dream
Pixels that dance in space

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There are several divisions of the day and night. I will commence with the media nox (mid-night) as it is the starting point of the civil year amongst the Romans. The time which approaches it nearest is media nocte (past mid-night); then comes gallicinium (cock’s-crow); then the conticinium (moment of silence) the time that the cock ceases to crow; then the moment called ante lucem and diluculum (the break of day) when it is already day, without the sun having risen; then the second diluculum called mané (the morning when the sun commences to appear); then ad meridiem (which precedes mid-day); then the meridies, or the middle of the day; then succeeds the time called de meridie (afternoon); then suprema (close of the last moment of the day); vespera (evening) which immediately precedes the rising of the star called vesperium or hesperon; then comes crepusculum (twilight), which is perhaps called so because uncertain things are called crepercœ, and it is difficult to say whether this moment belongs to the day or to the night; then comes the moment which we call luminibus accensis (the illuminated lights) and which the ancients called prima face (the first flambeau); then concubium (time to retire); then the intempesta (inopportune time to work); and then the moment called ad mediam noctem (which is near to midnight), after which the media nox returns.
~Censorinus, De Die Natale (The Natal Day)

“To get a conception of this change you must analyze definitely what time is. We measure and mark it by years, months, and so forth, down to minutes and seconds, all based upon the movements of our earth around its sun. But that is the measurement of time, not time itself. How would you describe time?”
The Big Business Man smiled. “Time,” he said, “is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
“Very clever,” laughed the Chemist…. “But there is no question that to some much smaller degree we all of us differ one from the other. The difference, however, is so comparatively slight, that we can each one reconcile it to the standard measurement of time. And so, outwardly, time is the same for all of us. But inwardly, why, we none of us conceive a minute or an hour to be the same! How do you know how long a minute is to me? More than that, time is not constant even in the same individual. How many hours are shorter to you than others? How many days have been almost interminable? No, instead of being constant, there is nothing more inconstant than time.”
~Raymond King Cummings

“Remember what I told you about time,” the skull said. “When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said ‘one o’clock’ as though I could see it, and ‘Monday’ as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year’s Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door.”
~Peter S Beagle

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From The Grove:

~Christone @Wordgrove Library
Sponsoring:  backpacker

From the father.

“This road I wandered long ago
To gaze on rick and manger;
Here is the land I used to know,
And here am I – a stranger!”

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From the son.

Who Remaineth?

Only stragglers and trash are left,
The crowds are gone,
In mad plunder for new pleasure.

But I will remain, and remain alone,
Perched high on the cliffs of forgotten memory,

And when once in solitude,
The shores will speak to me.
We both will wait, patiently.

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I think it is deeper; a joyful solitude, one longed for and desired. I enjoyed it many times in my travels and years across many places in the world!

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Good Morning!

The coffee-mug is warm in my hands, the surf loud enough to speak of paradise, the seagulls know it, but the cliffs remain in blissful silence.

Where are you, my dove?

The grass is cool in the early morning mist beneath my feet, but my soul yearns and the horizon may yet deliver.

I will watch and wait, for you.

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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
~Dale Carnegie

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
~Mason Cooley

I seemed to have lived a long time since that day.
~Richard Hengist Horne

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
~Charles F Kettering

An ounce of to-morrow is worth a pound of yesterday.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy

Old Time, in whose bank we deposit our notes,
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
~Charles Dickens

“Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.
~George Edward Woodberry

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Prewritten Prompt:   time

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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel

It is not time for mirth and laughter,
the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
~George Ade

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Human life is but a schoolday of eternity.
~James Lendall Basford

Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
~Delmore Schwartz

Time…a substance of some sort which existence burned up like a fire.
~Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.
~Claudia Schiffer

I think there’s a time in your life where you don’t feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you’re a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
~Matthew Vaughn

As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
~Joe Bob Briggs

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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But it seemed to Lucy, in her waking womanhood, that there were other secrets hidden in Greymire; secrets that belonged to her alone, and would some day whisper their message to her heart.
~Florence Bone

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Time is a seed, a sprout, a bud,
A bloom, a flower, a wilting rose,
Decay, disappearance, — a seed.
~Terri Guillemets

Perhaps
God, planting Eden,
Dropped a seed
Within Time’s neighbor plot
That grew to be
This hour?
~Mary Carolyn Davies

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The passing years are like a mist sweeping up from the sea of time so that my memories acquire new aspects.
~W Somerset Maugham

Time was large and wide as the sky, one part slipping into the next, unbroken as the flowing of water. She would not like it shattered so.
~Cid Ricketts Sumner

Time, the Heraclitean river — so painfully real to the heart, so unseizable for the brain.
~Percival Arland Ussher

Time is making fools of us again.
~J K Rowling

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
~Heidi Klum

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THE EXERCISE:

ambiguous

having slept
time well spent
to wake feeling rested
cheated too
sleep’s a thief
when time grows short
when the new moon night
bled of Luna’s light
shed of milk-white
reminds of nightness
when the endless comes
too soon

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realigned

time and experience
history’s graduate
too many sons lost
but not their lesson
it’s not so much
a diminished empire
striding the stage
than a wisdom emerging
a matured and stately
dynasty
a change of focus
to survive

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Sundial

There was a time
time was a shadow
of no more substance
than a callow youth
An unfledged arrow
a distant target
a sundial watch
an approximate truth
The hands of time
that mold a student
graduate at death
a master sleuth

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Dual Doggerels Dueling

Untamed, a Timeline

The timeline from meeting you to needing you
From a bleeding you to a healing you
From greeting you to completing you
The pleading you to a deceiving you
The misleading you now the cheating you
The cleaving you to a receding you
From believing you to not heeding you
From misreading to deleting you
From grieving to succeeding you
Exit the speeding you, so not impeding you
Let you stampede in another’s corral

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Timepiece

Metered motion of the hands, please
Measured true and tuned precisely
Watch the time please, see it increase
Match time remaining on the decrease
One request ere one’s fated decease
Lord, grant me one decent rhyme piece

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5s & 7s

riding the timeclock
taking up space on the page
standard maneuvers
players get the standard raise
saving hemlock for the sage

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rancid oil of time
late tomatoes gone to rot
ordained entropy

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the wrong and the wronged
two narratives to believe
patina of time

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tombs of the unknown
lasting flames, names etched in stone
times all died alone

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Last quotes:
It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
~J K Rowling

Time’s pace is always either too fast or too slow to please us.
~Charles Searle

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.
~Doménico Cieri Estrada

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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who is doing all the moving. I’m not the station, I’m not the stop; I’m the train. I’m the train.
~Martin Amis

Time kept passing without my consent.
~Abby Geni

The present: a point so intangible that, even as we name it, it unnames itself.
~Charles Searle

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Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~William Faulkner

And once again the flying seconds multiplied themselves endlessly.
~Bram Stoker

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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
~Dag Hammarskjold

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
~Theophrastus

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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
~Paracelsus

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
~William Carlos Williams

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She was forever saving time, like bits of string.
~Helen Hudson

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the little life of man.
~Charles Caleb Colton

And man watches his ingenious clock and his makeshift calendar and ticks off the days, wondering where time goes. Cherishing life, metering it out for himself in bits and pieces, hoping thus to control it.
~Hal Borland

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Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
~William Shakespeare

Among life’s regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
~Robert Brault

Punctuality is the thief of time.
~Oscar Wilde

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You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
~Charles Buxton

You may delay, but time will not.
~Benjamin Franklin

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
~Art Buchwald

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The world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. There was no time before the world.
~Augustine of Hippo

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
~Rod Serling

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
~Homer

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
~Frederick Buechner

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
~Garrison Keillor

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I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth…I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
~Walt Disney

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