Quotes About Time

Tobacco Will Slowly and Surely Kill You." And so will time , Gwynn thought. But if you want the job done quickly, professionals recommend bullet.

The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.

There were no milestones in the Copper Country. Often a traveler could only measure the progress of a journey by the time it took to get from each spoiled or broken thing to the next: a half-day's walk from a dry well to the muzzle of a cannon poking out of a sand-slope, two hours to reach the skeletons of a man and a mule. The land was losing its battle with time. Ancient and exhausted, it visited decrepitude on everything within its bounds, as though out of spleen.

Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and deposits uncertainty in its place.

The past would be useful if you could use it like that, as a place where you could bury dead bodies, shovelling this convenient loss of memory into the grave to cover up their faces. That's not what the past was for, though. It was where the present went to rot down, so you could use it to grow the future. He smiled; nice piece of imagery, but it was too glib to fool anyone.

A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.

Not even my not-finest hour. More like fifteen minutes.

That's not what the past was for, though. It was where the present went to rot down, so you could use it to grow the future. He smiled; nice piece of imagery, but it was too glib to fool anyone.

At least we had work to do, and work fills in the time, and time is the enemy.

I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.

See, we don't know the beginning and we don't know the end; all we can know about is the in-between stuff. And that, my friend, is what life is like.

Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

The mind of age is like a lamp Whose oil is running thin; One moment it is shining bright, Then darkness closes in.

akuntala, we have watered the trees that blossom in the summer-time. Now let's sprinkle those whose flowering-time is past. That will be a better deed, because we shall not be working for a reward.

yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision; And today well-lived, makes Yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day; Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!

The home is the abiding place; in the home is reality; the home helps to attain Him Who is real. So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.

Oh, razum, vse se zgodi, ko nastopi ?as za to. Vrtnar lahko drevo zalije stokrat, toda sadje bo zraslo, ko bo prišel pravi letni ?as.

are children of the Father by virtue of our existence; trapped in Time we may be, but our Father loves us and He will find us.

When we are aware of the abundance of Life, synchronous events unfold in the continuum of time; Love brings together what needs to be brought together. (p. 217)

De geschiedenis staat beneden op je te wachten.

A volte si deve semplicemente aver pazienza. Se una cosa non va, bisogna lasciarla perdere per un po'. Si dà così alla vita spazio perchè trovi da sola una via d'uscita.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

psicoanálisis como vocación».[73] Lo metafísico seguía teniendo prioridad para él.[74] Así, entre 1938 y 1941 sacó tiempo para asistir a los seminarios de Bernfeld, un grupo de estudio que en 1942 dio lugar a la constitución del Instituto y Sociedad Psicoanalítica de San Francisco.