Quotes About Time

Reek took not more than an hour to relate what would've taken the most intelligent man five or six hours--that is, five minutes of speech and the rest of the five hours to recover from the nausea caused by having to utter such shameless rot...

Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Å'dipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years.

They had never had much time in Zenith for a serious attention to quarreling and being domestically vulgar. All day he had been at the office; most evenings they had seen other people; on Sunday there had been golf and relatives. They had time a-plenty now, equally for quarreling and for intimate and adventurous happiness together. One day they wrangled--and endlessly, because they were not quarreling over any one thing in particular but over the differences in their philosophies of life;

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt

One must wait till it comes.

Sólo ha pasado una cosa importante durante los últimos tres días, y es que nada ha pasado.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.

Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it is true, absence, change of place and of face, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance as it has done in many others.

The step between time and eternity is short but terrible, and I have few moments to prepare for it.

An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time. Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs. Judgment day the second coming arrives. Before you see the light you must die.

ANTIGONE È più lungo il tempo che occorre piacere ai morti piuttosto che ai vivi. È là infatti che giacerò per sempre.»

Count no man happy until the end is known.

Long before technology started holding our attention hostage for so many hours of the day, people had more time to let their minds wander, rest, daydream, imagine, and tune inward. But unfortunately, electronic gadgets—especially cell phones—steal away this precious inner time and keep us from connecting to our spirit and inner Self more than any other obstacle.

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

One of the cruelest crimes of patriarchy has been to teach us to project our thoughts into a future that will never come (getting together our vitae and our five-year-plans) or focusing us back into a past that is only memories of a present, keeping us unaware of the locus of our power in the present moment and effectively imprisoning us in time.

The temperature was still in the eighties even though it was almost 1700 hours.

One's life is short, but the life of the spirit is long.

Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.