Quotes About Time

Once the experience of falling in love has run its natural course (remember, the average in-love experience lasts two years), we will return to the world of reality and begin to assert ourselves.

Because competence-building represents more cumulative learning than great leaps of inventiveness, it is difficult to "time compress" competence-building.

Multitasking is a lie

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian.

Tomorrow. He watched the flames and smiled. Tomorrow I'll see. All things come tomorrow.

We each live in our own time...And we must do the best we can with our time. Those who came before weren't as lucky as us and we aren't as lucky as some who may come later. We must still live in our own time and do the best we can.

But there's something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

Fifty-four days," Brian said. "Not quite two months. Yes—that's me.

He decided to stop every hour for ten minutes. Derek had told him once that that was what the military did on long marches—a ten-minute break every hour

Whoever says youth is the best time in your life has cash in hand and can't remember being poor.

events were burned into his memory and so he used them to remember time

5. Early testimony supports historical claims. The closer the time between the event and testimony about it, the more reliable the witness, since there is less time for exaggeration, and even legend, to creep into theaccount.

As Einstein noted, past, present, and future all occur simultaneously.

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

Yes, the revolution was coming for them, too. How many revolutions would they have to live through during the never-ending historicity of their goddamned lives?

He worried that when he would speak of the past, he would sound and look old, as all ancient storytelling men did.

That spring and summer it became impossible to glance out the window without entertaining questions of physics, of multiverses collapsing onto themselves, of time lines breaking off like Antarctic ice shelves. Was all this really happening: masks and tyrants, aerosol sprays and gun-toting clowns?

Mrs. Hayes looked decades behind her God-given years, too. The whole family was investment-grade.

On Climbing the Sierra Mountains again after 31 years Range after range of mountains Year after year after year. I am still in love.

I'm sixty-eight" he said, "I first bucked hay when I was seventeen. I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life. And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.