Quotes About Time

But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age: for it was now that she should be young; now above all other times, with the wisdom in her, the wisdom that was frittered away in her 'teens', set aside in her twenties, now, lying there, palpable and with forty summers gone. She clenched her hands together. What good was wisdom; what good was anything when the fawn is fled from the grove?

Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!

He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn was too tense and highly charged for any common happening to survive.

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.

Drear ritual turned its wheel. The ferment of the heart, within these walls, was mocked by every length of sleeping shadow. The passions, no greater than candle flames, flickered in Time's yawn, for Gormenghast, huge and adumbrate, out-crumbles all.

É a hora da embriaguez! Para não serdes os martirizados escravos do Tempo, embriagai-vos sem tréguas! De vinho, de poesia ou de virtude, como achardes melhor.

So suddenly here we are. Six years on. I genuinely never believed we would film more than six episodes of Man vs. Wild , let alone six seasons. I mean, where has the time gone? I also really had no idea quite how many hellholes, remote jungles, stinking swamps, searing deserts, and forbidding, unexplored mountain ranges we have on this small planet of ours. People forget. Me included.

But it taught me another big lesson: Don't leave your children if they don't want you to. Life, and their childhood, is so short and fragile.

I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?

I don't want to get old. I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young.

I looked at sky this morning and realized summer is almost gone which really made me sad because it doesn't seem as though its been here at all.

At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.

table sat an antique ormolu clock, its hands frozen on the twelve and the ten, 11:50. The magic hour. The time when Zee's ghosts appeared in the greenhouse wall. Bits and pieces of two scenarios were coming back to her, fitting together like a child's jigsaw puzzle. She had, indeed, come to this place—Mathew Brady's New York studio—a short time earlier to have her portrait made

After the prescribed length of time and number of meals consumed and digested in unison, they felt they had sufficient community of interests to marry.

I don't lose time playing verbal games, trying to remember what I forgot. "I don't remember your name," says one octogenarian to another. "Tell me what it is." The second one pauses: "How soon do you have to know?" he asks.

The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.

44. fly high dreaming bird higher and higher on the wire of time no road blocks no stopping to think through why wings flap what makes the worthy soar only this pure heaven right now sky high

time is aboriginal eternal

This same politics of greed is at play when folks seek love. They often want fulfillment immediately. Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know genuine love we must invest time and commitment.

Life can be found only in the present moment; because the past no long is and the future has not yet come.

The classroom is one of the most dynamic work settings precisely because we are given such a short amount of time to do so much.

There are more than three hundred trillion cells in the human body. Counting ten cells per second, it would take more than a million years to count them all.

Infernal world! And thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor-one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.