Quotes About Time

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.

timeless (and therefore untimely) truth.

Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

It was years since I'd last been here, a lifetime. It was yesterday.

just as before we had to go the long way round, to avoid Timeslips and places where directions were often a matter of opinion.

You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.

dropped in from a possible future via a Timeslip, and was currently trying to mend his left leg with a pair of pliers and a sonic screwdriver someone had left behind in the bar. I

Bow ties are cool," I said. "The Travelling Doctor said so.

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, "It's too soon to tell.

Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years

I'd never have married', said Alexei to the sobbing Natalya, 'if I'd known our time was to be so short,

Nijedan dan, nijedan sat, nijedan minut nije prošao a da ga nije razdirala želja da je vidi, da joj pri?a, da je dodiruje. Žudeo je da se nasla?uje gledaju?i je, da napoji svoja se?anja, tako da posle, kad više ne bude s njom, može u mislima da je dodirne i oseti. (...) Ali ljubav uvek ra?a patnju. (...) Može li to potrajati? Ne smemo gubiti ni trenutka, pomislio je.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.

Love is life but longer

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

In that moment of recognition he is not consumed by a rushing sensation of love-quite simply a door opens to a room that has never gone away. The years apart were just years without one another.

She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.