Quotes About Time

You don't get older during the time spent in church, he told us. He pushed a shopping cart with a few rags and a bottle of Windex in it. We gave him a dollar.

What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes.

Plants have lived in the Now for a long time but they still have to have some things explained to them.

To be anywhere other than the now is to paint eyeballs on chaos.

People go, you know. It's only you that remains. That's the way it will be. That's certain at least. It takes years to learn to be still.

Have a nice remainder of the rest of your life.

It takes years to learn to be still.

Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye… 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51–52

It was just before dusk. Then there would be dusk. Then night. Day again. The little deaths – las muertes chiquitas - then the big one. It was all practise.

The girl is twenty-five. It has not been very long since her divorce but she cannot remember the man who used to be her husband. He was probably nice. She will tell the child this, at any rate.

doing this since 1976! And what they've found so far in these preliminary studies is that pollutants are really destructive. The lakes get gross. Life in them ceases. It took about eight years to make this happen in one of them, everything carefully measured and controlled all the while. Now the scientists are slowly reversing the process. But it will take hundreds of years for the lakes to recover. They think.

What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Through writing, I have been looking back ever since, trying to recapture all that was left behind

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.

Combien d'amours ont fait crier ton lit ? Combien d'années ont ridé tes yeux ? Qui a vidé tes seins épuisés ? Je t'ai regardé avec mes yeux de plomb Et mes illusions ont éclaté Laissant derrière elles Ta vieillesse Qui ne peut répondre à mes questions.

The older you get, the more bad things happen," he said. "Good ones, too. People you care about start dying. There's no getting around it.

Age is not ugly, just poignant.

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

Life moves so fast that I can easily forget they have happened to me unless I take time to record them.