Quotes About Time

Jól van ez így, gondolta az apu, minden visszatér a maga kezdeteihez, most látom, hogy valóban megállt az idÅ' és tényleg új kor vette kezdetét, ám nekem csak a régihez van kulcsom, az új idÅ' elÅ'ttem bezárattatott, és én már nem élhetek ebben az új idÅ'ben, mert az én helyem a régiben van, és az már halott.

They] turn their faces upward, and from the abyss of the Prague streets gaze at the strip of sky overhead, at the clouds, to see what time it really was, according to nature and not by the clock.

This new age is melting you all down, because it's not the measles you've come down with, it's the epoch.

Dentro de mil años no quedará nada de cuanto se ha escrito en este siglo. Leerán frases sueltas, huellas de mujeres perdidas, fragmentos de niños inmóviles, tus ojos lentos y verdes simplemente no existirán. Será como la Antología Griega, aún más distante, como una playa en invierno para otro asombro y otra indiferencia.

Great crimes are always being committed in this world of ours, but surely the greatest is to murder love. So many years have passed, almost half a century; everything has gone, my fortune, title, youth, happiness... only grief has not passed and remains as fresh as though it were yesterday.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

In that turbulent time, the happenstance First Lady, Betty Ford, was certain of one thing: she would not change. 'I've spent too many years as me,' she declared. 'I can't suddenly turn into a princess.

Don't get all worked up on my, young fella. An old woman like me is allowed to match-make from time to time. It's not my fault you're thirty-something and still unmarried. Don't you know that the best way to stop all the interfering hullabaloo is to just get hitched?

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if it didn't happen as quickly as you wanted it to. (p 99)

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

No matter how you tell yourself It's what we all go through Those lines are pretty hard to take When they're staring back at you Oh, scared you'll run out of time When did the choices get so hard With so much more at stake Life gets mighty precious When there's less of it to waste

It's a reminder to slow up and be awake to the real connections we have while we have them.

Love will have its day.

How long, how long must we sing this song?

History, like God, is watching what we do.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

I like my heroes to be alive," she told me. "I like them to grow old.

we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying.

I like my heroes to be alive," she told me. "I like them to grow old." I, too, admire my idols more for the lines on their faces, for the bumps and bruises, the cuts and scar tissue.

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

My experience with them, as well as with other events in my life, convince me that the thing to do, when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing, and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.