Quotes About Time

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

Conversations don't get any better as you get older.

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

The past is just such a retreat for me, I go there eagerly, rubbing my hands and shaking off the cold present and the colder future. And yet, what existence, really, does it have, the past? After all, it is only what the present was, once, the present that is gone, no more than that.

Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time.

My memories of that time are fleeting, but they will never vanish completely, because the unexpected encounters of our lives will always remain with us, causing us great pain in the silent ways we evoke them.

He wanted to etch into his heart these memories, and wondered how he could have forgotten this tragedy for so many years.

Three months is a lifetime in politics

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

What a fool she had been to waste the most precious gift of all, the gift of today. She

During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sun to see them.

Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.

Most of us do not live especially holy lives, after all. We spend most of our time sitting in traffic, paying bills, and being irritated with one another. Yet every week we are invited to stop all of that for one hour at least. We are invited to participate in a great drama that has been going on without us for thousands of years, and one that will go on as long as there is a single player left standing.

I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.

I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful, I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place, since shutting the book to go outside will involve the very great risk of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.

No one has time for this, of course. No one has time to lie on the deck watching stars, or to wonder how one's hand came to be, or to see the soul of a stranger walking by. Small wonder we are short on reverence.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

The biggest thing, the most important thing I learned about watching someone I loved being ill was to take each day and live it because you never knew how many days you had left with the person you loved.