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Quotes About Time

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.
~ Barbara Hambly
The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.
~ Barbara Hambly
To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.
~ Barbara Johnson
Smile...it kills time between disasters.
~ Barbara Johnson
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Chaos brings about a state of reorganization when utilized properly. Time is collapsing, and the energy is becoming larger and larger. You have come here to use that energy first. You will make pathways of consciousness as you pull the energy into your body that will assist others so that they may not have to go through what you go through.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Time apart is a reminder to value the time together.
~ Barbara Morgenroth
Like this cemetery, she was old and dry and what she had once been or even later represented had begun to slip from memory.
~ Barbara Nadel
I have a list of all the ways there are to make a wish, like seeing a white horse or blowing a dandelion. Looking at a clock at exactly 11:11 is on my list.
~ Barbara O'Connor
How many minutes is shortly?" I asked. "Is it one minute or eight minutes or eleven minutes? On account of if it's one minute, I can wait, probably. But eleven minutes would be out of the question." Mr. Scary walked back to my desk. And he sat me in my chair. I glanced up at him. "All I'm looking for is a rough estimate," I said.
~ Barbara Park
Are they "plants whose virtues have yet to be discovered" (Walt Whitman), "guardians of the soil"(Joseph Cocannouer), or something equally nice, or are they sly thieves that steal the soil's resources and gardeners' precious time? Perhaps they can only really be defined from a practical point of view: Weeds are any plants that insist on growing where you don't want them to grow.
~ Barbara Pleasant
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
~ Barbara Pym
Also, it was the morning and it seemed a little odd to be thinking about poetry before luncheon.
~ Barbara Pym
Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty five past seven. 'The evening stretches before us,' Viola said gloomily.
~ Barbara Pym
I suppose by the time one is seventy one can say confidently and from a personal experiece that things will pass. At thirty one is still living experimentally, guessing that they will yet almost hoping that they will not.
~ Barbara Pym
Nearly twenty-past one!' said Harriet, as they sat down to their meal. 'The Archdeacon has delayed everything. I suppose he imagined Emily would be cooking.' 'I don't suppose he thought about it at all, men don't as a rule,' said Belinda, 'they just expect meals to appear on the table and they do.
~ Barbara Pym
Too late for coffee, too early for drink -though when was it ever too early for a glass of Tio Pepe, slightly chilled?
~ Barbara Pym
Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.
~ Barbara Pym
He must be about fifty-seven or fifty-eight,' said Harriet, who seemed to have been doing a little calculation. 'It will be nice to see dear Theo again.' 'On the threshold of sixty,' mused Dr. Parnell. 'That's a good age for a man to marry. He needs a woman to help him into his grave.
~ Barbara Pym
You've done her a service to teach her that romantic love is largely made of illusion." [said Mina.] "Is it?" Alessandra asked, unable to suppress a worried sigh. Mina looked at her as if she knew exactly what Alessandra was thinking. "I said 'romantic love,' my dear--not true love." "But how can one know," asked Alessandra, "one from the other?" "True love," said Mina, "is something that reveals itself only with the passage of time.
~ barbara quick
Sa shume kohe i kam vjedhur gjumit per te kerkuar neper udhet me te erreta te kujteses! Por gjumi me rrembente para se te udhetoja aq sa te gjeja cfare digjesha te dija.
~ barbara quick
There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go." He smoothed a lock of hair from her face. "In our old age, we'll remember and be glad.
~ Barbara Samuel