Quotes About Time

Life gets old very quickly, until of course they tell you your number is up, which is when you start paying attention to the precious miracle you are about to lose.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.

Una imagen mental sugerente. Debe germinar en la imaginación de quien la escucha. Debe sobrentenderse por ella una película entera, incluido, a menudo, un marco temporal.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

Without Time's swiftness, which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

Sometimes Across the fields of yesterday She sometimes comes to me A little girl just back from play the girl I used to be And yet she smiles so wistfully once she has crept within I wonder if she hopes to see the woman I might have been— —1933

The Lake is young as natural lakes go, no more than four thousand years old, and it is simpler to say what did not form it than to say what did.

What's my age again?

It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

People who choose to stay private and closely held and to place other goals ahead of growth get two things back in return: control and time. The combination equals freedom—or, more precisely, the opportunity for freedom. I wanted to include those who had made the most creative use of it.