Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"Time waits for no one; use it wisely."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
"Our addiction to oil has bankrupted our future."
Bill McKibben
"We're in a race against time, and time is running out."
Bill McKibben
"We need to think in terms of decades and centuries, not quarters and years."
Bill McKibben
"We're in the final hours to prevent the worst outcomes."
Bill McKibben
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"Time flies but memory stays rooted."
Aimé Césaire
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"Time is the teacher of truth."
Aimé Césaire
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"We can't just continue living as if there is no tomorrow."
Greta Thunberg
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"We are running out of time, and you know it."
Greta Thunberg
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"We can't afford to wait any longer."
Greta Thunberg
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"The time to act is now, not later."
Greta Thunberg
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"Time is running out, and yet time is all we have to make a difference."
David Brower
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"The next decade will determine the course of human civilization for centuries."
James Hansen
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"Climate change is the defining challenge of our time."
James Hansen
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"We have about one decade to cut emissions in half."
James Hansen
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"The next few years are critical for determining our climate future."
James Hansen
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"Time is the gift we cannot reclaim, so spend it wisely."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Time is the ally of the oppressed who refuse to forget."
Aimé Césaire
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"My message is that we don't have time for this."
Greta Thunberg
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"The window of time is closing."
Greta Thunberg
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"Time is the dimension in which change occurs"
Edward Said
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"Time is the one resource we cannot replenish once we spend it on the wrong priorities."
David Brower
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"To photograph is to acknowledge that this moment will never come again."
David Brower
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"Time is not merely a measure of duration but a teacher of truth."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Time moves slowly for those in chains, swiftly for those who are free."
Aimé Césaire
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"Time is not a line but a circle; we return to what we have been."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The past does not determine the future, but it does constrain our possibilities."
Edward Said
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"The past is never simply past; it is always implicated in the present."
Edward Said
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"Time is our most precious and most wasted resource."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Time is precious; use it to build, to love, to grow, and to serve."
Leopold Sédar Senghor