Quotes About Time

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

The puzzle of time, the mystery of creation, the problem of evil, the enigma of knowledge, the state of soul, the vexations of probability theory of the nature of God's grace, all reduced to a single question. What does it mean, in a world of God's creation, that man is free to choose between the paths of good and evil?

Life is a sculpture, chip, chip, chip. In good time, with good patience, even the most formidable rock can be shaped.

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?

I speak as though it all happened yesterday. Yesterday indeed is recent, but not enough. For what I tell this evening is passing this evening, at this passing hour. I'm no longer with these assassins, in this bed of terror, but in my distant refuge, my hands twined together, my head bowed, weak, breathless, calm, free, and older than I'll have ever been, if my calculations are correct.

Mr. Godot told me to tell you he won't come this evening but surely tomorrow.

Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all. (Pause.) It is true the population has increased.

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

Yesterday shall be tomorrow, riddle me that my rapparee.

Time with God was meant to change my life, to bring resolve and results and revival.

Aynen öyle de geçmi? ve gelecek elemli saatleri –ki hiç ve ma'dum ve yok olmu?lar– ?imdi dü?ünüp sab?rs?zl?k göstermek ve kusurlu nefsini b?rak?p Allah'tan ?ekva etmek gibi "Of, of!" etmek divaneliktir. E?er sa?a sola yani geçmi? ve geleceklere sab?r kuvvetini da??tmazsa ve haz?r saate ve güne kar?? tutsa tam kâfi gelir. S?k?nt? ondan bire iner.

When we say we lack time to cook -- or even time to eat -- we are not making a simple statement of fact. We are talking about cultural values and the way that our society dictates that our days should be carved up.

When we lament the decline of time spent on cooking, we need to be clear what it is that we are lamenting. Many of the female cooks who devoted so many hours to preparing food in the past did so because they did not think their own time was worth much.

No one is too busy to cook.

Podemos afirmar que não havia relógios na cozinha medieval e no princípio dos tempos modernos, dado que as receitas indicam os tempos não em minutos, mas em orações.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.