Quotes About Time

A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn't create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he's born into; he may serve them, he may rebel against them, but the object of his service or rebellion comes from the outside.

We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.

according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' -- owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny. So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?

So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?

This is how it works: Someone has a vision that arises from a fierce and passionate love. To make it real, we must love every moment of what we do. Impermanent spirals embed themselves in asphalt, concrete, dust. Slowly, slowly, they eat into the foundations of the structures of power. Deep transformations take time. Regeneration arises from decay. Si, se puede! It can be done.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. —Madeleine L'Engle

Today will shape your tomorrow. Tomorrow you will remember yesterday.

9:00 Give five-minute warning that we are leaving for the zoo. 9:05 Ã¢â'¬Å"Please put your shoes on." 9:06 Ã¢â'¬Å"Please put your shoes on." 9:07 Ã¢â'¬Å"Please put your shoes on." 9:08 Ã¢â'¬Å"Put your shoes on." 9:09 Ã¢â'¬Å"Put. Your. Shoes. On." 9:40 Leave for the zoo.

Non possiamo sempre aspettare con pazienza. E' come in amore. Ci innamoriamo di una persona e subito il nostro tempo accelera, l'abbiamo lasciata un momento fa e subito vorremmo rivederla, le ore lontano da lei sembrano lunghissime. Allora corriamo, scavalchiamo ostacoli e barriere, solo per raggiungerla un minuto prima. Michelle, lei ha fretta perchè è innamorata del suo futuro, del suo mestiere,del desiderio di tornare alle luci del teatro

La vita di un puntuale è un inferno di solitudini immeritate. (La vida del puntual es un infierno de soledades inmerecidas)

Il tempo è un grande fiume. Tutto quello che possiamo vedere di lui è un po' d'acqua raccolta nelle nostre mani. Anche se quell'acqua a volte è torbida, sappi che il grande fiume scorre limpido, prima e dopo di noi.

E per noi ogni giorno è prezioso. E abbiamo i racconti. E sappiamo riparare le cose, voi no. E anche se il vento ci soffia contro, abbiamo sempre mangiato pane e tempesta, e passeremo anche questa.

La vita di un puntuale è un inferno di solitudini immeritate

A volte penso: è tempo perso questo aspettare? O è il tempo più necessario e prezioso, il prezzo che dobbiamo pagare all'affetto, alla cura, alla fratellanza?

Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

If you've ever tried to alter your own marital patterns you know that change doesn't happen overnight. In history, as in personal life, there are very few moments or events that mark a complete turning point. It takes a long time for ideas to filter through different social groups. Typically, individuals adopt only a few new behaviors at any one time, and old habits hang on long after most people have agreed they should be dropped.

The home economics experts believed that modern household tools made this investment of time an element of woman's self-fulfillment rather than, as formerly, an act of self-sacrifice. Any woman who was dissatisfied with her domestic role now that she had such helpful appliances, they argued, suffered from "personal maladjustment.

The individual stories of saltwater slavery form the antithesis of historical narrative, for they feature not an evolving plot of change over time, but rather a tale of endless repetition that allows no temporal progression. Every protagonist was a pioneer, blazing a trail on the same ground traveled by predecessors in saltwater slavery, but without the benefit of historical memory. It is a narrative in which time seems to stand still.

I see my future now not as something intangible like a dream, but like a boat meeting land after time spent at sea, a destination I will reach.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

Are you, are you happy? I am today, she said. Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.

The chaos indicates you're smart enough to spend your time fighting for what matters, instead of wasting time adhering to society's useless mores about what a home should look like. Speaks to your power.