Quotes About Time

The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you—and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. Mark 4:24 What a great Scripture! It tells us that the more time we spend thinking about the Word we read

Cuando nos negamos a utilizar nuestro tiempo para hacer las cosas que necesitamos hacer, siempre terminamos perdiendo tiempo ocupándonos de las emergencias y la confusión que hemos creado al posponer las cosas.

i dare you Slow Down and Use Your Mind Properly 1. Be determined to pay attention to the things around you, like flowers, trees, a child playing, or your family who loves you. 2. Commit to reading something that is not work-related for at least thirty minutes a day. 3. Get up twenty minutes earlier than you do right now and spend that time with God. Ask Him to show you how He wants you to use your time that day.

I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has given us for today!

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

The quality of our life is greatly affected by the time we spend with God, and it should have a place of priority in our schedule.

God will give us the grace to deal with tomorrow, but He won't give it to us until tomorrow gets here.

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all my deadlines. It will come whenever it damn well pleases; all I can control is the time between. So when I see something I want, I grab it. If the tulips are particularly yellow, I buy them.

All I can control—for whatever fight I put up should a cancer make a comeback—is the time between.

the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read.

Y me digo al mismo tiempo que somos pésimos jueces del momento presente, tal vez porque el presente no existe en realidad: todo es recuerdo, esta frase que acabo de escribir ya es recuerdo, es recuerdo esta palabra que usted, lector, acaba de leer.)

You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.

Estoy comenzando a pagar. Más vale empezar temprano, para terminar pronto.

Eso duró toda la vida. No fue un año ni dos. Fue toda la vida.

Sto cominciando a pagare. E' meglio iniziare presto, per finire in fretta.

Sólo tú estás. Sólo tu cuentas. Lo demás es un juguete que hay que despedazar porque nos hace daño estar jugando con él a eso de estar sacrificando nuestro mejor tiempo a intereses que no son ni pueden ser nuestros.

Y en días de aire se ve al viento arrastrando hojas de árboles, cuando aquí, como tu ves, no hay árboles. Los hubo en algún tiempo, porque si no ¿de dónde saldrían esas hojas?

You gave the devil time to process you out of your divine state. Now, you must give God the same amount of years to process you back to Him.

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm … I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm … I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for

Moving both backward and forward in time, re-creating believable dialogue, switching back and forth between scene and summary, and controlling the pace and tension of the story, the memoirist keeps her reader engaged by being an adept storyteller. So, memoir is really a kind of hybrid form with elements of both fiction and essay, in which the author's voice, musing conversationally on a true story, is all important.

In other words, sex is an ideal construct which is forcibly materialized through time. It is not a simple fact or static condition of a body, but a process whereby regulatory norms materialize 'sex' and achieve this materialization through a forcible reiteration of those norms.