Quotes About Time

Te irritabas enormemente cuando te hacía notar que perder el tiempo no es en absoluto grave. Pero llegaste al máximo de la irritación cuando te dije que la vida no es una carrera, sino un tiro al blanco, lo que importa no es el ahorro de tiempo, sino la capacidad de encontrar una diana.

Sólo al envejecer nos damos cuenta de la gravedad de ciertas palabras, y todo lo que nos hemos perdido —por superficialidad, por egoísmo, por prisa— pesa sobre nuestro corazón, pero el tiempo ya habrá pasado y no vuelve atrás.

3 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 6 days since I'd seen daylight.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

History is time that won't quit.

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever. In its place is something you have left behind … let it be something good.

I know one thing about men, Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. They never die when you want them to.

Mahoney: Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait. Mr. Magorium: No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.

You're going to say goodbye, go and get your closure. In a hundred years when you're just a haze on the water.

It is true that life is full of misfortunes, but fortunate is he who knows how to utilize the ideas which can make him creative. Time is the greatest of all filters, and ideas are the best of all wealth.

In his classic The Outermost House, American naturalist Henry Beston writes that animals "are not brethren, they are not underlings" but beings "gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear." They are, he writes, "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

Bear-time seems slow to us, perhaps, because we do not have the patience for such a life.

I get them—especially Girindra's, since he mails them from Jamespur—their words are usually six to eight weeks old. While I read their words, I can't even know for sure that the writers are still alive.

Beston writes that animals "are not brethren, they are not underlings" but beings "gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear." They are, he writes, "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter.

There is only now, today, this present moment, this point in time. Waiting for 'someday' is, like striving for perfection, really just an excuse. 'Someday' is a concept that, to quote my mentor, Jean Renoir 'exists only in the mind, not in reality.

Reduce the duration of your showers by two to

She needed a nap already, and it was not yet ten o'clock.

I spend a quarter of every day inside you. When you set limits outside of that I can't help but see them as arbitrary.

Love will find a way against time itself.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

What's your definition of dating? Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking

It's a full time job with a part-time companion.

I prefer to spend time with you. You're the most interesting person I know.