Quotes About Time

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems with limited resources, including limitations of time. The Singularity will be characterized by the rapid cycle of human intelligence—increasingly nonbiological—capable of comprehending and leveraging its own powers.

Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life? —HAVELOCK ELLIS

Work by physiology professor Benjamin Libet at the University of California at Davis shows that neural activity to initiate an action actually occurs about a third of a second before the brain has made the decision to take the action.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

En noches así siempre se anda uno preguntado cuánto ha olvidado y cuánto de todo esto va a recordar en el futuro.

Uno tiene que saber cuándo su tiempo ya ha pasado. Y aprender a admirar otras victorias.

No es estúpida esa fe que la gente deposita en el pasado, como si el pasado fuera más cierto que el presente o el futuro?

No es estúpida esa fe que la gente deposita en el pasado, cómo si el pasado fuera más cierto que el presente o el futuro?

Desde que los periódicos dicen que el mundo se acaba, siento que las canciones son más cortas y los días más largos.

Australian Aboriginal people is that they see the world in a multi-dimensional way – that's the only way I can describe it. Time is a more fluid concept for Aborigines than it is for us. Maybe they're string theorists, but I think that modern physical theory regarding the concept of time certainly has some resonance with an Aboriginal perspective. When

as draftees of any substance searched for substitutes to fill their slots, boys and men of little property who were willing to sell their time and bodies found no shortage of takers.

Most men of means, whether their holdings were modest or substantial, felt they could not afford the time, nor did they wish to give up the assistance of their own sons or apprentices.

The majority of loyalist émigrés from the North went to Canada. Three-quarters of these arrived in Nova Scotia, which at that time included all the maritime provinces.

Vacuous pronouncements of good will meant little while "the violent spirit" ruled people's hearts. Time, and time alone, would heal the many wounds of the Revolution.

It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline

At the time, any science, as it was then called, was thought to be a challenge to the authority of the Church; a science that promised spiritual purification was a direct threat to the Church.

As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.

L'instruction! Voyez ce que c'est, monsieur, que l'instruction. On apprend quelque chose à l'école, on se donne même du mal, beaucoup de mal, pour apprendre quelque chose à l'école, et puis vingt ans après, ou même avant, ce n'est plus ça, les choses ont changé, on ne sait plus rien, alors vraiment ce n'était pas la peine. Aussi je préfère penser qu'apprendre.

I don't know how long I stayed in that particular place my poor memory is not a chronometer nor a movie camera nor a phonograph nor any other sort of finely tuned machine. It's more like nature with holes empty spaces hidden nooks and crannies with rivers that trickle away so that you can never dip your foot in the same water twice and with patches of light and darkness.

To procrastinate is to marinate. Or so we tell ourselves.

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.