Quotes About Time

Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

a petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on the job, and to four weeks after three years.

In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

When I was eighteen, Germany was eighteen," said Goethe,

what an individual seeks to become determines what he remembers of his has been. In this sense the future determines the past.

But how can one write a book with any integrity," he wonders, "if there is no assurance of the few years time any good book takes?

Seismic change can happen over a lifetime, or in an instant.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

You are the only man I ever respected,' she said. 'But you haven't aged well. You have stayed young. Men who stay young don't age well.

La vie est pavée d'occasions perdues.

My hints had, undoubtedly and unintentionally, made her feel insecure, guilty, inadequate, afraid that she was losing whatever it was that turned me on; in short, it aroused all the self-doubt so readily awakened in women after thousands of years of servitude. Hence my zeal in denying the effects of time was abetted by Laura's complicity.

Of course it's always possible to gain time, put up a front, try to last it out - how long, a year, eighteen months? I'd rather leave the arena before I am beaten to a pulp and have to be dragged out. One has to know how to accept the inevitable.

Buvau jaunas, jaunesnis nei maniau. Ir vis d?lto mano naivumas buvo jau senas ir be iliuzij?. Ties? pasakius, jis amžinas: ?žvelgiu j? kiekvienoje naujoje kartoje, pradedant 1947 met? Sen Žermen de Pr? "žiurk?mis" ir baigiant Kalifornijos beat generation , pas kuriuos kartais apsilankau, nes man smagu kitose vietose ir kituose veiduose atpažinti grimasas, kurias darydavau dvidešimtmetis.

nors beveik vis? m?s? šiandien jau neb?ra gyv?, mes likome linksmi ir dažnai susitinkame gyvi jaun? mus supan?i? žmoni? žvilgsniuose.

Les années passaient, je ne l'oubliais pas. J'avais parfois peur car j'avais encore beaucoup de vie devant moi et qu'elle parole pouvais-je donner à moi-même, alors que c'est Dieu qui tient la gomme à effacer ?

But perhaps there are points about which one never grows old. And it is no more agreeable at sixty-three to feel that a young woman no longer considers you a man than it is at sixteen to feel that she still considers you a child.

His thoughts too were weary, and he felt a little sad to be so very old; it meant he had not much time left and would have to content himself with what he knew already.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Basta un instante para hacer un héroe, y una vida entera para hacer un hombre.

Learn something every, second, every minute, every hour, every day, every month, and every year but remember what the purpose was for learning all those things.

Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it.

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.