Quotes About Time

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

We're not only two years older, we're two years wiser.

I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry around one or two, but we had to leave our backpacks on the bus.

Well, if you enjoy life while you have it, then it doesn't matter how long you have it for. No one knows how long they get to live. It's like a deal you make when you're born, you know, to accept what happens to you.

The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive." He shakes his head. "But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens.

Did you know when you look in the mirror, you're actually seeing a slightly younger version of yourself?" "Is that so?" she mumbles, her eyes darting to the next table, which is piled high with cheap makeup that looks half-used. "Yes. It has to do with the time it takes light to travel between the mirror and the person standing in front of it.

FIFTEEN MINUTES later

But I think I'm too old to dream now. In a month and a half, I'll be twenty-nine.

It's been so long since I heard that someone died of natural causes.

I wonder if because of my reading I have lived more fully or in some ways failed to live, at least in my own time and place.

Steve doesn't work here anymore." Madeline sat in the cul-de-sac, trying to absorb the words she'd just heard. "I haven't seen Steve since he was laid off. That was at the beginning of September. About six months ago.

And she cannot be a day over thirty-five," he said adamantly. "I have noticed that after that the fruit becomes . . . less firm.

There's a season and there's a reason

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Their conscious selves expected diminishing returns. The average estimate of new endings was about five, which was fewer than they had produced in the initial four minutes. They were then given an additional four minutes to work. The actual number of new endings they generated was 20 percent higher than they estimated. They didn't give persistence enough credit.

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

You can't have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant

Tokens of affection ease the wariness of time.

God did not create the past, present and future, this moment is up to you to decide whether it will be fleeting or unforgettable."

The clock doesn't care about time and wine doesn't care about age.

The clock doesn't die when time runs out.

The past is behind us because the future is moving forward.

Those who don't plant spend their lives plowing the land.