Quotes About Time

The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back and ask her about her life, fill in all those gaps. But of course, you can't go back.

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Time was wiggy in so much dark.

I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars." –Jorge Luis Borges

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand.

The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.

The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.

You can still talk with her," Iceland said. "It will take time. Everything you need to know is inside you, the same as it's inside her. You'll figure out how to talk to each other. You'll have to figure out how to listen, to understand." "I'm listening," I said. "I will.

Nature ever flows, never stands still.

About the magic bathroom). If knowledge is money, and money is gold, then this is modern day Alchemy. Feces (wasted time) is turned into gold (knowledge).

twenty-four hours) to rest and delight in God.

In Germany, it seems, time doesn't heal wounds; it kills the sensation of pain.

Sembra che in Germania il tempo non guarisca le ferite, ma uccida il dolore.

In a simple system, if I pull a lever, I get the expected result. If I turn my wheel, the car turns. In a more complex system, I turn the wheel and there may be a very large amount of lag time.

And he was like, "No, no, I really think we ought to do that." And I was like, "We don't have time!" So he wrote it that night.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything.

Ihre Gedanken scheinen stillzustehen und mit ihnen die Zeit, und alles verbindet sich mit ihr, wird zu einem einzigen, wunderschönen Gefühl, das Licht, die Gerüche, die vereinzelten Geräusche, die die plötzliche Stille noch intensiver machen.

Es wurde Herbst und Winter. Es wurde Sommer. Es wurde dunkel, und es wurde hell.