Quotes About Time

We're on this earth for a limited amount of time," he says, leaning on the edge of the window. "But if we get our souls saved, we got to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We'll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That's the most important thing. I'm thinking *long-term*.

e uns tinham apenas gasto horas, outros a eternidade; e apagava-se o rasto convulso de uma consciência cujo segredo perdêramos havia muito sem disso darmos conta; e tudo era indiferença, talvez recordação da ausência, talvez; de uma maneira ou de outra todos temos cicatrizes: há umas que se não vêem.

You get spread out. All the demands on your time and energy leave you feeling like there isn't enough of you left to be a good dad, friend, spouse, and employee at the same time.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when you're getting ready to read: • Select a regular place for reading. • Set aside a regular time, when you will be able to devote your full attention to the baby and the book. Just before or just after a nap is usually good. • Try to read for at least fifteen minutes each day.

In study after study, the overwhelming majority of men aged twenty to forty-five say that having a work schedule that lets them spend more time with their family is more important than doing challenging work or even earning a high salary.

It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract us from that reality.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

The day after tomorrow you'll say that only the day before you saw someone who no longer exists. He stays in your memory for a split second and then vanishes.

Time reminds everybody of death, but who goes around day and night talking about it? Was this the source of that strange anxiety which sometimes comes over us, without our knowing why? Like some strange sister of joy, it was a tremor of fear, of ending, of all that begins and passes away. Was this the source of that odd loneliness we feel even when we aren't alone. and which is akin to stardust?

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Which of us is not saying to himself--which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions.

We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

The future is the past returning through another gate.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.