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Quotes About Time

Aveau destul timp, È™i unul È™i altul, întreg timpul care îi va separa din momentul în care unul din ei ar muri.
~ Georges Simenon
I have seen what comes of being patient, Amanda said with a boding look. And I have no opinion of it. What does come of it? Inquired Sir Gareth. Nothing!
~ Georgette Heyer
To start with, I know that the General didn't get on with his son, but seemed to prefer his nephew; I know that he disapproved violently of Miss de Silva, and behaved towards her with unparalleled cruelty. How much? interrupted Dinah. Harding replied with perfect gravity: No absinthe, no shower in her bathroom... Did she tell you all that? said Dinah. Don't you think she's rather good value? Yes, but she wastes my time.
~ Georgette Heyer
Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured.
~ Georgette Heyer
Dear Edward has given Fanny a chocolate-coloured coach with pale blue cushions. The wheat is picked out in blue. He held the sheet at arm's length. It seems strange, but no doubt Fanny is right. I have not been in England for such a time...Ah, I beg her pardon. You will be relieved to hear, my dear Hugh, that the wheat still grows as it ever did. The wheels are picked out in blue.
~ Georgette Heyer
Recollect that we have been acquainted for less than a month! You cannot, cousin, have fallen - formed an attachment in so short a time!' 'Nay, love, don't be so daft!' he expostulated. 'There's no sense in saying I can't do what I *have* done!
~ Georgette Heyer
But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.
~ Georgette Heyer
And as for the tulips, I know several, and they would not do for me at all. Besides, they are not romantic, because they have to think so much about their cravats and their coats and the size of their buttons that they have no time for anything besides. The most truly romantic man I know does not give a fig for what he may look like. It would not do for everyone to be so careless, of course, but he is so extremely handsome that it don't signify a scrap.
~ Georgette Heyer
You need not be afraid that I have just fallen in love yesterday. I am quite sure of my mind in this. A month is fully long enough for that.' 'Or a day or an hour,' said the Earl musingly.
~ Georgette Heyer
Fay cast a strartled glance at the clock, and sprang up. Heavens, it's past four! I must fly or Arthur will have a fit. He can't bear unpunctuality. Are you ready? I'm ready, said Dinah, but I shall dawdle for ten minutes for the good of Arthur's soul.
~ Georgette Heyer
doors opened, and Mr Beaumaris handed his bride tenderly up into the luxurious vehicle. So little time had she been kept waiting in the road that she did not even look to see whether
~ Georgette Heyer
The sense of struggling through the thickets of a nightmare again swept over her. There was a way out, so her heart's voice cried to her, and could she find it she would find also Damerel, her dear friend. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.
~ Georgette Heyer
Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured. Yet
~ Georgette Heyer
There's no such word as "finish" in the vocabulary of a working kennel,' I said. 'By then, it'll be feeding time. It's always feeding time or cleaning-out time or walking time.' 'Or singing them to sleep time?' 'Now you're getting it.' I said.
~ Gerald Hammond
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
It may be alleged, indeed, in favor of contrary opinions, that in Bede's time there were possibly some few vineyards in Ireland, and that St. Dominic of Ossory, as some say, introduced bees there long after the times of Solinus.
~ Gerald of Wales
You're a long time dead. So do it NOW!
~ Geraldine Evans
The Monk then undertook to tell us the history of the world -- an over-ambitious project, I thought, but it passed the time.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
The only test, Baker, is how not to erase ourselves from the map. Our history is that things don't last. Every generation creates the right monsters to destroy itself.
~ Gerard Donovan
The shovel worked in and out of the light beams as the dirt hit him in the stomach, on his back, fell into his ears, his eyes, as I covered him along with the things that had made him: his walks, his rest, his eating when hungry, the stars he watched sometimes, the first day I brought him home, the first time he saw snow, and every second of his friendship, what he took with him into silence and stillness ...
~ Gerard Donovan
That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.
~ Gerda Weissmann Klein
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
~ Germaine Greer
Geologic time includes now.
~ Gerry Roach
I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets
~ Gerry Spence