Quotes About Time

My experience with them, as well as 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.

never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought, and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. So, for the greater part of my life, I have avoided Washington; and even now I rarely spend a day in that city which I do not look upon as a day practically thrown away.

Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.

We do keep looking ahead to things as if they'd finish something, but when we get to them, they don't finish anything. They're just part of going on.

For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. Youth really believes what is running water to be a permanent crystallization and sees time fixed to a point: some people have dark hair, some people have blond hair, some people have gray hair. Until this moment, Alice had no conviction that there was a universe before she came into it. She had always thought of it as the background of herself: the moon was something to make her prettier on a summer night.

It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love; when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead of solemnly gliding about; in that mellow time so long ago, when the young were romantic and summer was roses and wine, old Carewe brought his lovely daughter home from the convent to wreck the hearts of the youth of Rouen.

For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. Youth really believes what is running water to be a permanent crystallization and sees time fixed to a point...

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

Man sagt ja, die Erinnerung male mit einem goldenen Pinsel.

The Commission pressed Churchill: when did he imagine that this would be

You are eternity's hostageA captive of time.

Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.

People don't change. Things do.

I refuse to ask of the past more meaning than it can give to the present.

Tomorrow thinks not of the cares of today.

Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit of being ten minutes too early.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age, and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

All of man's faculties are to be brought to completeness. For that purpose all the years of time and the aeons of eternity are God's and ours.