Quotes About Time

The damage done by colonial powers to the heritage of conquered peoples is irreversible; yet racial memory is a collective storehouse that time and history cannot eradicate.

Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.

Beasts aren't sent with wrath because the time is short but, rather, are shaped over time from the wrath that was wrought forth within them.

Nothing is more relentless or as dispassionate as time

Arday kastaa waa inuu laba mid uun doortaa, xanuunka edbinta nafta, ama xanuunka qoomamaynta wakhtiyadii uu daayacay.

If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.

It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be (Ben Jonson)

And in short measures life may perfect be

Though the integration into a single whole of all legitimate theologies is an eschatological desideratum, it can only be approached asymptotically in time.

measured by the clock click of the serpent-minute the explosion after which it is proper to appreciate that the brutal fist of the terrorist crack of dawn has just planted at the top of the most forgotten poui its adornment of fire its dolmen of blood its flag of rage and renewal

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Someplace that feels impossible - as impossible as time travel.

You cannot step into the same river twice. Maybe that's because rivers, like people, are constantly changing

How fast the time goes. That's what people were always telling us, at least; the strangers' hands on our bellies, saying how careful we must be to enjoy the time. How it'll all be over in a blink of an eye. How before we know it, they'll be walking, talking, leaving us.

It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.

One Million years OR One Billion Years- What is the Earth's Age? when we Realize the Truth, we know it is just a Virtual Stage !

The now is Peaceful and Blissful, But how easily we lose our Joy, We slip into Yesterday and Tomorrow, Looking for another Toy!

This is why we have to stay awake, be vigilant: we need to believe that we, like the museum objects around us, bear time with equal complexity, that eventually we might discover who we have been, what purpose we serve and what use we might one day be.

Berapa banyak waktu dalam hidup yang kita sia-siakan karena mengkhawatirkan sesuatu yang, pada saat itu, tak memiliki solusi, dan karena itu, bukanlah sebuah masalah?

Careful patience is the fastest way!

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was

The walls were unadorned except for a tattered calendar that stopped at December 1941, when the world changed forever.