Quotes About Time

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning.

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning. It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.

For the memory of their time together was all she would ever have in the empty years to come.

Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred history is like a hallowed tree whose roots dig deep into primordial time and whose branches weave in and out of genuine history with little concern for the boundaries of space and time.

By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just about every conceivable objection to the resurrection, and they were able to create narratives to counter each and every one of them.

sacred history is like a hallowed tree whose roots dig deep into primordial time and whose branches weave in and out of genuine history with little concern for the boundaries of space and time. Indeed, it is precisely at those moments when sacred and genuine history collide that religions are born.

Such statements are commonplace in John, the last of the four canonized gospels, composed between 100 and 120 C.E. John shows no interest at all in Jesus's physical birth, though even he acknowledges that Jesus was a "Nazarean" (John 18:5–7). In John's view, Jesus is an eternal being, the logos who was with God from the beginning of time, the primal force through whom all creation sprang and without whom nothing came into being (John 1:3).

But sometimes waiting can be murder…

morning, it would only be a matter of time before she sidled up and kissed him again. Then Sam would

Te escribo porque los años me han fijado los recuerdos como un sarro y el pasado se ha convertido para mí en un viejo tullido.

La ética es como el amor. Se vive en presente, las consecuencias no importan. Si uno piensa en el pasado es porque ya perdió la pasión...

people spend less time in the office and have more time to themselves. Their need to belong to a tribe can be satisfied with hobbies or in community activities and doesn't have to be met in the office.

What's important to understand about the seven-day weekend is that by redesigning the architecture of time, we can make room for work, leisure, and idleness. All three can coexist and harmonize together to produce happiness and a sense of purpose.

Semco adds yet another dimension. You receive a voucher for work after your retirement. So if you took off a hundred Wednesday afternoons, you are now entitled to redeem the vouchers after your retirement by showing up with them and saying, "I'd now like to redeem my vouchers to work one Wednesday a week for two years and receive proportional pay." You've effectively exchanged early retirement for later work.

Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

But when I asked if she was behind 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' she said, 'Absolutely. That's my song. Every time I hear it, I'm right back with Mick in the flat. Music can't tell time.

IT TAKES SOME temerity to publish, in a new edition, a book written more than thirty years ago.

Demands for healthy food choices were like New Year's resolutions. Top priority on Boxing Day, forgotten with time to spare for Valentine's chocolate.

It's the place that worries you, said Hazel. I don't like it myself, but it won't go on forever.

Voir s'achever le temps de l'angoisse et de la crainte ! Voir se lever puis se dissoudre les nuées lugubres suspendues au-dessus de nous — ces sombres nuages qui attristent le cÅ"ur et réduisent le bonheur à un vague souvenir ! Rares sont les êtres qui n'ont jamais éprouvé cette joie-là.

The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.

Each age has different tensions and terrors, but they open on the same abyss.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

It doesn't take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn't take long to drop it, does it?