Quotes About Time

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.

It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.

I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.

by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift-logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

Gäbe es die letzte Minute nicht, so würde niemals etwas fertig.

When its steamboat time you steamboat

it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.

On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years. Since there was so much time to spare that nineteen years of it could be devoted to the construction of a mere towhead, where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days?

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.

she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

They forget to mention that he is the slowest mover in the universe; that his Eye that never sleeps, might as well, since it takes it a century to see what any other eye would see in a week; that in all history there is not an instance where he thought of a noble deed first, but always thought of it just a little after somebody else had thought of it and done it. He arrives then, and annexes the dividend.

You say to yourself, 'How can a little girl be a grandmother.' It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time.