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Quotes About Time

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.
~ Ariel Sharon
Sometimes we forget to, or feel guilty when, we take time to nourish our own souls. It is not selfish to spiritually fill ourselves because we need that time to find the delicate balance in our lives. Only then can we truly be of service to others. --Debra Siegrist
~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Life is short, so fall in love.
~ Arina Tanemura
watched the setting sun as it sent bursts of colors across the sky as he thought about the question. "Because what we choose to do between the two is entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all given the exact same amount of time but what differs is how we utilize it.
~ Aris Whittier
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
~ Aristide Briand
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
~ Aristophanes
Old men are children for a second time.
~ Aristophanes
A woman's time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn't seize it, no one wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens.
~ Aristophanes
Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.
~ Aristophanes
One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
~ Aristotle
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.
~ Aristotle
Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.
~ Aristotle
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
~ Aristotle
What soon grows old? Gratitude.
~ Aristotle
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
~ Aristotle
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
~ Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
~ Aristotle
guess he wasnt a lotus eater-the frowned people of today-the land which time forgot to change-was the guru of alexandar the great-pity the lotus eaters(qoute the time machine)-my tribute to all the fallen ones-the lotus eaters-rest in peace in grave-pity you didnt have machiavellian persons like him to teach-the dear departed ones-let them at least know peace in their grave.
~ Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~ Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~ Aristotle
I wonder how long it will take to dry.
~ Arleta Richardson
a twinkle in her eye. "Someday I may be old too!
~ Arleta Richardson
The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.
~ Arlette Farge
The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild