Quotes About Time

God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

God's Blood, have we truly become old? he wondered. I do not feel old. I feel the same, but . . . weathered. Like a ship that has plowed the same waves for many years. The rigging is slack, the sails have holes, but the bottom is still seaworthy.

Books,' Morgenes said grandly, leaning back on his precarious stool, '--books are magic. That is the simple answer. And books are traps as well.' 'Magic? Traps?' 'Books are a form of magic--' the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, '--because they span time and distance more surely by any spell or charm.

To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.

The solitary mind probes at an ugly thought as a wound, constantly seeing if the pain is less, and in doing so keeps it alive beyond is time.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.

Time is a zero-sum game, a limited resource. Life is too short to do only what we have to do; it is barely long enough to do what we want to do.

The past overshadows the present foreshadows the future.

That's the hardest thing to cope with when a young person dies—especially when they've been murdered. The unfulfilled dreams, the unrealized potential. The people close to them—family, friends—thought they had so much time to make up for mistakes, plenty of time down the road to tell that person they loved them. Suddenly that time is gone.

Anybody can look like a genius if they have all the answers ahead of time," Quinn said.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

When I say I want time to think, I want time to think! Jonathan sighed wearily. All right, you've had time to think. What's your answer? That I need more time to think!

Dusk came to the third day and killed it with a blue sword. Always it was the same, and the day, always taken by surprise, never escaped, but bled and swooned and shut its eyes in blackness.

To be nineteen and feel such a weight of time was curious.

His voice cut through all like a gold wire, through time, place, dust, heat, and faith. A girl on a balcony averted her head from him superstitiously among the terra-cotta pots of flowers. Romulan blinked at him, entranced. None of them had heard a verse sung better, or a love song more like a knell.

Charlie considered showing up in time for dinner to be quite domestic enough, thanks very much.