Quotes About Time

have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. —William Faulkner

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.