Quotes About Time

He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted—must be relinquished

The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me.... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity.

One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow.

You're used to difficult women. To struggle. Perhaps you like it when they give you a bad time." "Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.… Do you mind if I unbutton my collar? It seems to be pressing on an artery.

Keep out of this, please, will you, Mildred? A child isn't a toy." "Oh," she said, "they grow up. Time does it more than fathers and mothers. The parents take too much credit.

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good.

told him a lot, right then and there. What? Well, for instance, that chaos doesn't run the whole show. That this is not a sick and hasty ride, helpless, through a dream into oblivion. No, sir! It can be arrested by a thing or two. By art, for instance. The speed is checked, the time is redivided. Measure! That great thought. Mystery! The voices of angels!

But I have had visions of judgment. I see mainly the obstinacy of cripples. We do not love ourselves, but persist in stubbornness. Each man is stubbornly, stubbornly himself. Above all himself, to the end of time.

I imagine, sometimes, that if a film could be made of one's life, every other frame would be death. It goes so fast we're not aware of it. Destruction and resurrection in alternate beats of being, but speed makes it seem continuous. But you see, kid, with ordinary consciousness you can't even begin to know what's happening.

Not all events are stories.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

GeçmiÅŸte kimse yaÅŸamad?, gelecekte kimse yaÅŸamayacak; her türlü yaÅŸam?n biçimi ÅŸimdidir; hiçbir kötülüÄŸün al?p götüremeyeceÄŸi bir mülktür bu.

Cuando empleamos nuestras horas agradablemente, transcurren más de prisa; pero cuando éstas son tristes se deslizan con mayor lentitud [...]; por otro lado, casi no tenemos noción del pasado cuando éste es aburrido y en cambio lo tenemos presente cuando es entretenido.

Het zou handig zijn wanneer je boeken koopt dat je de tijd om ze te lezen erbij kon kopen

Die Wahrheit ist allezeit nur ein kurzes Siegesfest beschieden zwischen die beiden langen Zeiträumen, wo sie als paradox und als trivial gering geschätzt wird

Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends.

Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your willingness to give that person your rarest resource: time. It is a way of conveying respect. Conversation reminds us that we are part of a greater whole, connected in some way that transcends duty or bloodline or commerce. Conversation can be many things, but it can never be useless.

the past exists only in your mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your mind because it has not happened.

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.

I don't read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time.

I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.

So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.