Quotes About Time

The movement of the wheel is relentless. All changes; all moves on.

Sometimes, when the past catches up, you just can't stop yourself.

For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.

No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history - a river into which you can't step twice, a collection of biographies end to end, a hilltop to survey the surrounding plains and so on - but also, more so, the anxieties prompted by the spooling of time and the awareness of its unstoppable nature; and random thoughts...

Festina lente. You know what that means? Hurry slowly. Bene. He smiled. -A Good & Happy Child

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.

Pentru un b?rbat munca pare s? fie ceva esen?ial, care-l ajut? s?-ndure scurgerea f?r? ?int? a timpului.

Por lo visto , el trabajo resulta esencial para el hombre, algo que le permite soportar la huida sin fijarse en el tiempo.

the statement is a record stretching over a whole year and filling three notebooks the size of folios.

Atata vreme cât cercul vicios nu se va rupe undeva, nu numai ceasul, dar ÅŸi timpul vor sta în loc oprite de firele de nisip.

When he actually began working, for some reason he did not resist it as much as he thought he would. What could be the cause of this change? he wondered. Was it the fear that the water would be discontinued? Was it because of his indebtedness to the woman, or something about the character of the work itself? Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Then, suddenly, as if the floor of time had slipped away...

Grea era aÅŸteptarea! Timpul p?rea strans în nesfarÅŸite cute adanci, ca niÅŸte foaie. Dac? nu se oprea la fiecare cut?, erau tot soiul de b?nuieli, fiecare cu arma ei. ÎÅ£i trebuia un efort teribil ca s? mergi înainte, f?candu-te c? nu le crezi ÅŸi dandu-le la o parte. În fine, dup? ce aÅŸteptase toat? noaptea, venir? zorile. DimineaÅ£a radea de el, lipindu-ÅŸi faÅ£a, ca burta unui melc, de geamul ferestrei.

Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal.

Iš ties?, darbas padeda žmogui susitaikyti su b?gan?iu laiku, net kai jis slenka tuš?iai.

Waiting was a bore. With work one understands one's own effort is everything, but in waiting one can't use one's own strength.

A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while [page 88].

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. Bu it is not quite so slow as a pushcart.

The future is forever a projection of the present