Quotes About Time

But time lessens all extremes and reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

The past still had its future.

She hoped the examination would not take too long because she had to take Patty to her art class, shop for tonight's dinner, and fix the hem of Patty's new dress for her sixth birthday party next week.

Their evenings were interminable; their Sundays were like their evenings.

there was only this one life to live; the unpardonable sin was to waste it.

This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.

The patina is the history of an object and shows what has happened over time. A cracked finish, a nick, a scratch - all these things give a piece character. The patina is what makes the piece truly valuable.

Perhaps there were certain kinds of pain that remained raw forever.

Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.

Sometimes," he said very seriously, "fifteen minutes is all it takes for your entire life to change.

Life was too short, and far too precious, to waste.

Feelings don't work on a timetable," Claudia said gently. "Sometimes it takes five years for a couple to figure things out, like it did with Mia and Ford. Sometimes it takes fifteen or twenty years, like it did for Rafe and Brooke. And sometimes, it only takes a few seconds to fall at first glance...and to feel deep inside your heart that you've found something special that will last forever.

I wanted to be able to tell you the exact moment I fell in love with you. But I can't do that." "You can't?" A pin could have dropped in the grass and it would have been heard in that moment as everyone grew perfectly silent to listen for his reply. "No, I can't. Because every single moment I've spent with you is that moment, Lori.

When she thinks back to the long wasted years that she has devoted to her marriage, Frances wonders whether she was in possession of all her faculties. She was letting her life slip by and doing nothing with it. They didn't even have children.

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this.

Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.

I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: "Fuck me he's a earthbender.

I found that when people are nursing a grievance it's a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason.

There's nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

gave us the traditional look of weary outrage that you always get from someone who thinks they don't have time for this shit—

This was not a room that had been decorated. Rather it had accumulated over time around someone with a yen for comfort and a wicked sense of color.

the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop.

although of course at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation, lunchtime was an illusion.

Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken. - Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe