Quotes About Time

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.

he passed through a village and a woman approached him with a request. 'I don't have the time,' he replied. 'Then stop being emperor' was the devastating riposte.

É importante saber, com toda a certeza, que Marco Aurélio não se limita a defender o carpe diem de Horácio ou a aliciar-nos a viver cada dia como se fosse o último – embora também o faça. O que ele prega muito claramente é que o presente é tudo o que temos.

She had a deeper conviction that procedures and attitudes could be evolved that extracted the poison from disagreement. She had a fantasy that there was always a formulation which could give painless compromise, if one only had the time.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

It is 12:20 in New York a Fridaythree days after Bastille Day, yesit is 1959 and I go get a shoeshinebecause I will get off the 4:19 in Easthamptonat 7:15 and then go straight to dinnerand I don't know the people who will feed me

Most investment banking employees are rational economic actors who know that once they've received a bonus payment, they'll have to wait an entire year for another. If you were planning to leave a firm, you never stayed more than an hour or so past bonus time if you could help it.

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow

Let's imagine I happen to be writing some sort of truth here. By the time you read this, I might have changed my mind. Ten years from now, I would likely put it differently. By then I may regret that I wrote this. And regardless of how I feel then, I'll bet that if you reread my book twenty years from now, you'll have changed, so the book will have changed, too. So much for changeless truth.

In the prologue, I said that the only answer to "Who are you?" is "When?" What was true for prologue is doubly true of epilogue. We never arrive. There are no final answers, only a series of snapshots taken along the path of "frenetic desperation."   Movies

Eternity is not time at all. It is God's total possession of Himself.

Just as space has parts lying alongside one another, time has parts following one another. The Infinite has no parts, of either (or any other conceivable) sort. Eternity is not time, however much we may try to glorify the concept of time.

Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. —Hector Berlioz

When God created the world, He worked for six days and then rested. Adam was created on the sixth day. So God's seventh day—the Sabbath—was Adam's first full day.

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

I didn't think time could change us.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

1793, the year was now divided in 12 months renamed after nature and the seasons. Each month counted three equal 10-day periods, and the additional 5 days found the year were de facto holidays. But the name of the months