Quotes About Time

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

It's too late. It's too late. Through the open door of the bathroom I see a watersoaked bag on the floor.

Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.

Because it's getting to be the blue hour, and that's the time when everything is revealed.

I think this [Obama] administration, if its policies were pursued for an extended period of time, would take us into decline, but there's nothing wrong with this country that a real president couldn't cure.

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

It was a ticklish job chasing a man in these conditions, but Shelley had undertaken many ticklish jobs in his time, and he was quite prepared to do his best with this one.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

She will not notice that her clocks have slowed down, because she will herself be thinking more slowly.

Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, 'If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been.' Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.

Cinnamon Girl" wasn't right for this day, for this time, for what was about to happen. If he were to have music, he thought, maybe Shostakovich, a few measures from the Lyric Waltz in Jazz Suite Number 2. Something sweet, yet pensive, with a taste of tragedy; Qatar was an intellectual, and he knew his music.

I'll bring pajamas " she said. "Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?" "Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight.

Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Your parents are never gone from you. You'll see that someday, hopefully a very long time from now.

Old friends are best.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

Unser Leben ist uns nur für einen Moment geliehen. Niemand weiß, wann der Engel an unsere Tür klopft und die Schuld einfordert.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.