Quotes About Time

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into perceived truths of the soul.

They steal our yesterdays and leave us no youth but that of our children.…

want to stress yet again that it has never not been the case that Buddhism is refracted through the ideological prisms of its time and place. My point is that, for us today, the refracting master prism is neoliberalism

There is no time in the limbic system. Because of this our past often takes us over without warning and we relive it in ways that can be very troublesome. The

Poetas, no perdamos el tiempo, trabajemos, que al corazón le llega poca sangre.

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

The alien pounding and the heat and the dark glistening bodies dragged her back, back past the cold ashes of her innocence to a time when pain could be castrated on the sharp edges of iron-studded faith.

They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

Mozart, the most famous Wiener of all time.

It only underscores the feeling that everything from our past has vanished.

Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minuted to hours

It was a commitment to God. He was first on the calendar that day where He belongs every day. And it is not the sort of commitment one compromises. Not if one wants to seize time and keep it under control. It is the start of an organized day, an organized life, and an organized private world.

When money is limited, one budgets. And when time is in limited supply, the same principle holds. The disorganized person must have a budgeting perspective. And that means determining the difference between the fixed—what one must do—and the discretionary—what one would like to do.

Jesus was aware of where true importance lies, where the priorities are. And where your priorities are, there your time will be.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time. Cyrus Sitema

As for the human case, the generation of men come and go and are in eternity no more than bacteria upon a luminous slide, and the fall of a republic or the rise of an empire—so significant to those involved—are not detectable upon the slide even were there an interested eye to behold that steadily proliferating species which would either end in time or, with luck, become something else, since change is the nature of life, and its hope.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made

Each affair began as though the creation of the world was to be reenacted, and each usually ended in less time than it took the Old Testament Creator to put up the sky. (62)