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Quotes About Time

brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.
~ Stephen Colbert
A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?
~ Stephen Colbert
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.
~ Stephen Colbert
Grief will always accept the invitation to appear. It's got plenty of time for you.
~ Stephen Colbert
For years I had been living in a kind of eternal present, shutting off all the past which disagreed with me, letting through only the most censored memories. As for the future, nothing was thought out. It simply happened, like the turning of the page. In filling my life with books, I was ... surrounding myself with other people's stories in order to obliterate my own.
~ Stephen Dobyns
In a foxhole, the past and, more important, the future do not exist. The only thing in the world that matters is the moment
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
A man whose birthday was in 1829 or earlier had been born into a world in which President Andrew Jackson traveled no faster than Julius Caesar, a world in which no thought or information could be transmitted any faster than in Alexander the Great's time.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
It was a Tuesday in February. Many my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?
~ Stephen Fry
It was a Tuesday in February. Many of my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?
~ Stephen Fry
What walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three in the evening?
~ Stephen Fry
Am I the same person i was fifty years ago? Every molecule and cell of my body has been replaced many times over.
~ Stephen Fry
Et in arcadia ego.' Why should they notice it? Its shadow will be on them soon enough and they in turn will be wagging fingers at their children and saying, 'I too once lived in arcadia, you know …' and their children will not listen either.
~ Stephen Fry
The future is a much bigger deal than the past
~ Stephen Fry
If days be good, they shall pass, which is a lowering thought. If they be bad, they shall pass, which is cheering.
~ Stephen Fry
The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.
~ Stephen Fry
Writing allows us to listen to the past and speak to the future.
~ Stephen Fry
We know how wars that each side believed would soon be decided can stretch out over months and years. The Greeks and Trojans were perhaps the first to discover this unhappy truth.
~ Stephen Fry
For them, ten years ago, that's another lifetime. For you, it's yesterday.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
We all become history at some point, right?
~ Stephen Graham Jones
We have finally found something that doesn't have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in.
~ Stephen Hawking
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
~ Stephen Hawking
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first
~ Stephen Hawking
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
~ Stephen Hawking
We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe
~ Stephen Hawking