Quotes About Time

But then he decided it wasn't an irony, it was merely the broken gears of time, or the way life can feed you when you're full (youth) and starve you when you're hungry (midlife).

And there was the nervous one who couldn't sleep but kept everyone on time and figured out which berries not to eat.

Fears of the future [are] almost always rooted in the past. (175)

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

You will be late for your own funeral.

If time and fear aren't enough to dissuade people from their revenge, then there's always authority, softly shaking its head and saying, 'We understand, but you're the better man for letting it go. For rising above it. For not sinking to their level. And besides,' says authority, 'if you try anything stupid, we'll lock you up in a little room.'

It's not so much that you've lost your faith in time as that time has lost its faith in you

According to the schedule, the entire block from 8:00 to 8:30 has been labeled BRUSH YOUR TEETH. Earl laughs again and walks over to the bathroom. [...] 'Who needs half an hour to brush their teeth?'

measuring duration of time.

Recognizing that non-dotted notes are divisible by two and that dotted notes are divisible by three is very important to understanding rhythm.

DURATION OF SILENCE

We prefer to think of time as our servant, something we use and fill, rather than as our master, shaping

I'm finding I don't have to fill things up," said Alice, immediately to my left. "You can have empty space around you. You can have free time. I'm finding that the less I do, the better I like it.

The time is always right to do what is right. Now is the time to realize the American dream. Now is the time to transform the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into a glowing daybreak of justice and freedom." Such

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

throughout the contemporary world, the more religious the group the higher its birth rate, and we see the power of religion to sustain community over time.

God is beyond time, but human beings live within time. We cannot take ourselves out of, say, the twenty-first century and project ourselves a thousand years from now. Inescapably, we live in the now, not eternity.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.