Quotes About Time

One of the greatest journalists of all time was Walter Cronkite, whose integrity was never questioned. Although his political leanings were decidedly left-wing, you would have had great difficulty detecting it because of his balanced treatment of the news.

Seen without the gilded lies that comprise what we call "civilization," history is an assemblage of massacres, mass enslavements, conflagrations, a growing accretion of ruins. Time had to be "blasted out" and history blasted open. Only then could it be redeemed, and with it us.

Benjamin again: "Gambling converts time into a narcotic.")

To know where the stars are is to know what time it is, what day and what year. Time is not an independent vector that pushes on, stubborn and cocksure, taking us to a place called the future. It lives in our bodies and in the stars, in the mountains that rise up from the sea floors, in the wind and rain that wash the mountains back into the sea. Everything moves. Mountains and oceans as well as stars.

The past was mainly rotten, but it appeared to have passed. The present was pure ebullient collapse. And the future? It hadn't happened yet.

Time is not linear. It does not go along on a steady course like a road from London to York. It does not have a beginning and it does not have an end, nor is it the same to one person as it is to another, nor to two planets or a million stars. It is different in all circumstances. Because it is relative.

I thought we'd done with that. Who's the celebrity this time?' 'Samuel Pepys.

I don't want to wait. I want to learn. I only have the rest of my life left and I need to make a start.

Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas.

If a bullet's going to get you, it's already been fired.

It's going to be a long, lonesome eleven months in Iraq, long and lonesome being the best-case scenario

money shaves off a good ten years.

Observe him, as his watch observes his clock, and true as turquoise in the dear lord's ring, looks well or ill with him.

He was not of an age, but for all time.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

savings and time deposits, savings-and-loan-association accounts, life insurance, annuities, and real-estate mortgages or equity ownership.

The longer the bull market lasts the more severely investors will be affected with amnesia; after five years or so, many people no longer believe that bear markets are possible.

It follows from this reasoning that the majority of security owners should elect the defensive classification. They do not have the time, or the determination, or the mental equipment to embark upon investing as a quasi-business. They should therefore be satisfied with the excellent return now obtainable from a defensive portfolio (and with even less), and they should stoutly resist the recurrent temptation to increase this return by deviating into other paths.

As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards. Looking back, you can always see exactly when you should have bought and sold your stocks. But don't let that fool you into thinking you can see, in real time, just when to get in and out.

the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard noted, life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards.

As a rule of thumb, investors should spend the bulk of their time on the disclosures of the security under study, and they should spend significant time on the reports of competitors.

He could wait, because hatred is patient.

History wasn't a straight line, it was a circle.

His age was not something of which he'd been unaware—each birthday had been a ritualized reminder of his loss of youth, each New Year's Eve a prompter of the passing of time—but he now understood emotionally what before he had comprehended only as an intellectual concept.