Quotes About Time

The risk people tend to fear most is not financial loss or wasted time. Rather, it is the risk to their pride, status, and prestige, to what their peers will think of them if they fail.2 In other words, the risk of failure can weigh more heavily than what is at risk.

Or in the words of the famous British historian Arnold Toynbee, "History is just one damn thing after another.

New" national, international, or global emergences create an unsettling sense of transition, as if history is at a turning point; and it is in such incubational moments—Antonio Gramsci's word for the perceived "newness" of change—that we experience the palimpsestical imprints of past, present, and future in peculiarly contemporary figures of time and meaning.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life really never grows old.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Una grande epoca storica non muore mai tanto rapidamente quanto i suoi tendono a sperare e forse anche devono sperare per poterla colpire con il dovuto rigore.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

Calculating the value of a life in days and years is a fools arithmetic; the only true measure of our lives is how richly we spend our allotted time, and how much of ourselves we share along the way.

Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

Riddle: Early to bed and early to rise does what?

Kenneth Koch once said, "You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others they are what we will become.

A berry ripens in its own good time . . . and so does a child's readiness. Just as the one needs water and sunlight, the other needs the patient reassurance of loving adults who can trust children to grow according to their own timetables.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

He came into my life in February 1932 and never left it again. More than a quarter of a century has passed since then, more than nine thousand days, desultory and tedious, hollow with the sense of effort or work without hope- days and years, many of them as dead as dry leaves on a dead tree. I can remember the day and the hour when I first set eyes on this boy who was to be the source of my greatest happiness and of my greatest despair.