Quotes About Time

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.'

The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.

Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?' 'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.

Christ, I think I'd grow old if I lost you.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!' 'There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the Dog. 'You have found your family, your heritage, and you have earned a high place in the world. I love you too, but my time with you has passed.

I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate, Abhorsen said quietly. I know the secrets and horrors of the Nine Precincts. I do not know what lies beyond, but everything that lives must go there, in the proper time. That is the rule that governs our work as the Abhorsen, but it also governs us. You are the fifty-third Abhorsen, Sabriel. I have not taught you as well as I should—let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Arthur sighed and barely managed to whisper, "Key... hold the Hour Hand for... a minute... a minute...

I love you too, but my time with you has passed.

What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold

But the struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wise... And happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time.

preliminary hearing took five hours, spread across two days

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

Quality time does not mean that we have to spend our together moments gazing into each other's eyes. It means that we are doing something together and that we are giving our full attention to the other person.

When I sit with my wife and give her twenty minutes of my undivided attention and she does the same for me, we are giving each other twenty minutes of life. We will never have those twenty minutes again; we are giving our lives to each other. It is a powerful emotional communicator of love.

It takes time and the conscious choice to listen.

A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity... Togetherness has to do with focused attention.

Quality time does not mean we must spend our moments gazing into each other's eyes. It may mean doing something together that we both enjoy. The particular activity is secondary, only a means to creating the sense of togetherness. The important thing is not the activity itself but the emotions that are created between both.

Quality conversation is quite different from the love language words of affirmation. Affirming words focus on what we are saying, whereas quality conversation focuses fully as much on what we are hearing. If I am sharing my love for you by means of quality time and we are going to spend that time in conversation, it will be with a genuine desire to understand your thoughts, feelings and desires.

Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day.

When we hold hands, it seems as if our blood flows together. We could kiss forever if we didn't have to go to school or work.

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.