Quotes About Time

life is much like a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We are acutely aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch. Of course, we don't know exactly what it is that we don't know, so we can't frame the question well. We ask, "What is the meaning of life?

Passionate love does not turn into companionate love. Passionate love and companionate love are two separate processes, and they have different time courses.

In every permanent situation, where there is no expectation of change, the mind of every man, in a longer or shorter time, returns to its natural and usual state of tranquility. In prosperity, after a certain time, it falls back to that state; in adversity, after a certain time, it rises up to it.12

life is much like a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions.

Time is nothing more than the longest distance between two places." I said, "Tennessee Williams.

it seems to me marriage is like a big boat. Put the time into maintaining it, and it's something to see. Get lax, and it goes to hell in a handbasket.

From Heartbreak Hotel: (Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple" "Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

No other road, no other way, no day but today.

There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last

No Day, But Today~

A man dies at twenty and it is a great shame. He dies at thirty or forty and he has been taken from us too soon. But if one reaches the age of eighty-three, all the shock eventually begins to flow the other way, even in a murder case. The chief question becomes: How on earth did he survive so long?

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

Your first time?" the Hauptman gently asked. I nodded. "You'll get used to it," he went on, "but maybe never completely." He

Your efforts might be unsung, and people who think the workplace is about fostering friendships might label you antisocial. The trade-off is that you're learning how to find and keep the people around you critical to your success while those who would swipe your time, energy, and contributions are getting less and less of each.

There are different kinds of predators. There are the kinds who target the weak. And there are those with more of a Dexter vibe who don't lose sleep if a child abuser has a hard time on the way to the station.

each second that peeled itself off the clock and dropped onto that dirty bathroom floor.

I'm going to be dead for a long time. Let me be awake as much as I can for now.

Ahora ve despacio, chico. A la naturaleza no le gustan las prisas. —Sí, padre

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.

Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.

The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.

A 1998—and didn't there always seem to be a 1998 coin in every handful of change?—and a 2013. Still new looking even though it was a few years old now. The coins were still warm. Warmer now for

wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a way of fixing a point in time so that nothing can change, nothing can be rewritten, no one can leave.