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Quotes About Time

The woman's at a certain time of life—craving for sensation, unbalanced, unreliable—might say anything. They do, you know!
~ Agatha Christie
Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.
~ Agatha Christie
The past is sometimes a very good place to live
~ Agatha Christie
Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o'clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours.
~ Agatha Christie
Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,' said Captain Wyatt. 'Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun, I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.
~ Agatha Christie
U moje vreme ako je neko bio lud, bio je lud, i nismo se služili nau?nom terminologijom da bismo to ublažili.
~ Agatha Christie
I think it was just before half past ten.
~ Agatha Christie
Bueno, debe ser que el amor no logra adueñarse de nosotros hasta que tenemos cierta edad.
~ Agatha Christie
La vida, como el tren, hija mía sigue adelante! ¡Y es una suerte que sea así-
~ Agatha Christie
Miss Marple sighed. 'It seemed wonderful at first, unchanged you know, like stepping back into the past to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.
~ Agatha Christie
said sharply: "Water not boiling again, Somers!" and Miss Somers's worried meek face went pink and she said, "Oh dear, I did think it was boiling this time.
~ Agatha Christie
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now.
~ Agatha Christie
We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
~ Agatha Christie
I can't say I've ever had time to read any of the stories. When I do get time for reading, which isn't very often, I prefer an improving book.
~ Agatha Christie
Even God cannot change the past.
~ Agathon
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
~ Agathon
VREMEA TREMURÄ' DE FRIG.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
Wir sind viel laenger tot als lebendig, sagt die Tante, Tote brauchen viel mehr Glueck (...) Die Erde wird nie satt, sie will immer essen.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
Le passé en lui-même est un très mauvais matériau pour la littérature. La littérature est un présent brûlant, non au sens journalistique, mais comme une aspiration à transcender le temps en une présence éternelle
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
a trecut atata timp de cand nu i-a mai dat ascultare inimii ascultare inimii sale, ca aceasta a amutit.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
living so close to Nature that everything you do is determined by her and each passing minute is felt rather than made use of.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt? As long as some of us hold on and do what we can.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Youth is in the heart and age is just a number
~ Ahmad A. Charaf