Quotes About Time

Right now, Mama G's memory is like the ocean. It comes and goes, high tide and low tide. But each time, the beach erodes a little bit more.

Numbers people don't like being rushed, so back off.

It's odd—when you look back, things seem simpler, but they weren't." "Really?" "When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

Bloody hell, were you this annoying with my father?" "I fear I was more so, my lord. I was younger then and could go on and on and on—" "Good. The old bastard deserved a difficult time." "So many people believe.

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

It was a chaste kiss, but as her lips brushed his warm cheek, her eyes met his. They were deep and dark, warm with passion and longing. And somehow she knew, without question, what he thought. What he felt. Time held its breath - and in that moment, looking into Buchan's warm, tormented gaze, Tatiana's heart awoke.

The blossom opened at midnight, big as a dinner plate. It took only moments to unfold.

The dolphin, they live for today. But I am human. To be human is to live for tomorrow. Why does tomorrow matter? What is important is now.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

Before, my brother was part of the family. After, he was just killing time until he could be shed of us.

was so that she could spend more time with Phil while he was recovering.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

A year from now you will wish you had started today

Normalmente el destino pende de la oscilação de un péndulo.

Dom decided that when life returned to normal—even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could—he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment.

Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

In the brief silence, an antique clock ticked with a sound like stones falling off a ledge.

One day's too far ahead to plan.

Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.

The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.