Quotes About Time

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

1 John 1:4 "These things [are written] that your joy may be full." I can always measure the amount of time I'm spending in the Scriptures by how much joy (not superficial happiness, but deep down abiding joy) I have. When I find a lack of joy in my life, the first thing I check is how much time I'm spending in God's Word!

We will not have any Dickens today… but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Diffusion Is the Process by Which (1) an Innovation (2) Is Communicated Through Certain Channels (3) Over Time (4) Among the Members of a Social System

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.

For three years, out of key with his time,He strove to resuscitate the dead artOf poetry; to maintain "the sublime"In the old sense. Wrong from the start—No, hardly, but seeing he had been bornIn a half savage country, out of date.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.

There is the subtler music, the clear light Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand heavens: Lo, there are many gods whom we have seen, Folk of unearthly fashion, places splendid, Bulwarks of beryl and of chrysophrase. Sapphire Benacus, in thy mists and thee Nature herself's turned metaphysical, Who can look at that blue and not believe?

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

I am an eternal spirit and the things I make are but ephemera, yet I endure: Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath our feet and we endure.

Time, space, neither life nor death is the answer. And of man seeking good, doing evil. In meiner Heimat where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. Ezra Pound, from "Canto CXV" (The Cantos of Ezra Pound)

Never ", said Winston to his cousin " waste time making munitions. Be a GUN, and shoot other's munitions. Don't waste time having ideas." (cousin deeply impressed..but did not achieve lasting preeminence)

Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.

This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with enough sensibility to see them, that it is possible to thrive in adversity in the needs of the rulers are pandered to.