Quotes About Time

Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers: People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

God may or may not be the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but the cultural context in which we speak about God does change.

Days pass, and the years vanish, and we walk sightless among miracles. Fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever we gaze, that the bush burns, unconsumed. And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness and exclaim in wonder, "How filled with awe is this place . . .

American Christians need especially to see the political meanings of these stories, for we live in a time of the American empire.

They are soon gone, and we fly away. . . . So teach us to count our days / that we may gain a wise heart" (90.12).

Another Q saying uses language from the prophet Isaiah to signal that the activity of Jesus points to a time of deliverance.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

Did not he, then, who, if he had died at that time, would have died in all his glory, owe all the great and terrible misfortunes into which he subsequently fell to the prolongation of his life at that time?

El pasado es también el presente y el futuro. La nación que olvida está pérdida.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings

In Cicero's time the left and the right wing in ethical philosophy were represented by the Epicureans and the Stoics respectively, while the Peripatetics held a middle ground.

Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene honesteque vivendum

Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected.

He took my fingers in his, and for a long moment we remained still. Two old bodies linked together by our hands and by the thousands of tender words we no longer need to speak.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

Potential has a shelf life.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.