Quotes About Time

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

It is in a total state of involvement that one finds liberation from time.

You can be with a man for twenty years and never really know who he truly is. Then again, you can meet a man and know everything about him in an instant.

Qué es la vida sino el tránsito de las espinillas a las arrugas en pos de la sabiduría?

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Helen has reached an age when life itself has become fragile, when each day must be an only half-expected gift, when she knows there can be no future to talk about.

The hands of the watch stood at five past eight. The only kind of death that can be accurately predicted to the minute had taken place, the death that takes its victim, … feet foremost through the floor, Into an empty space. 2 THREE TIMES IN THE past thirty-five years I had seen her name in print.

It changes, but in some lives change is a long time coming.

Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.

The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

It must always be an amazement how 18th century letter writers - even, and especially, officials - had the time and capacity to produce their sculpted sentences and perfection of grammar and mots justes , while 20th century successors can only envy the past and leave their readers painfully to pick their way through thickets of academic and the mud of bureaucratic jargon.

Hours of the day were named for the hours of prayer: matins around midnight; lauds around three A.M.; prime, the first hour of daylight, at sunrise or about six A.M.; vespers at six in the evening; and compline at bedtime.

Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.

The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

A man ahead of his time, Oresme suggested that the source of demons and specters could be the disease of melancholy.

Havoc in a given period does not cover all the people all the time, and though its effect is cumulative, the decline it drags behind takes time before it is recognized.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

The reckoning of time was based on the movements of sun and stars, nature's timekeepers, which were familar and carefully observed.

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

Nevertheless Sir John French next day sent Joffre definitive notice that the British Army would not be in condition to take its place in the line "for another ten days." Had he asked for ten days' time out when fighting with his back to London he would not have survived in command. As it was, Sir John French remained Commander in Chief for another year and a half.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come, a fact that generally escapes despots, who by nature are rulers of little wisdom.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them. I am old. Walter

Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend: their affection, mellowed by the hand of time, endeared by the recollection of enjoyments, toils, and even sufferings shared together, becomes the balm, the consolation, and the treasure of life.