Top 33 Time Steals Quotes
#1. O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#2. Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and deposits uncertainty in its place.
K.J. Bishop
#3. There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
James Gates Percival
#5. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
#6. Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#7. Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
Khaled Hosseini
#8. Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen
Jonathan Carroll
#9. Ut time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself
Khaled Hosseini
#10. Next time a sunrise steals
your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way.
Say nothing and listen as Heaven
whispers, Do you like it?
I did it just for you.
Max Lucado
#11. Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
Samuel Butler
#12. It's not good ... Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. - Fausto
Mark Mills
#13. Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.
Clive Cussler
#14. It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
Beverley Nichols
#15. a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.
E.J. Copperman
#16. Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H.L. Mencken
#17. The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.
Juvenal
#18. False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
Sam Harris
#19. Complacency is a slow gas leak, not a bomb blast. Like being robbed by a thief in the night who only steals a penny at a time, we awake to find the days have all gone somewhere. Things
Jon Acuff
#20. Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.
Justin in CRIMSON RAPTURE
Jennifer Horsman
#21. Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
John Newton
#23. The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process
George Bird Evans
#24. If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
Richard Avedon
#25. I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.
Nolan Ryan
#26. Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.
William Shakespeare
#27. white-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away with it, while the eighteen-year-old kid who steals with a gun goes to prison for a long time.
Joseph Hilldorfer
#28. Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
Doug Larson
#29. Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
Edward Moore
#30. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Thomas Moore
#31. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
Edward Young
#32. Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you.
Pepper D. Basham
#33. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
