Quotes About Time

De manera que el liderazgo de tu familia comienza con tu tiempo a solas con Dios. Es sumamente importante para el hombre apartar un tiempo cada día para orar, leer las Escrituras y poner el corazón en sintonía con el de Dios.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Some wags surmised the Western powers refrained from unseating the Soviet regime to give socialists around the world more time to see the full folly of their delusions.)

Who needs to read fast? In Nepal, when someone dies, their relatives string garlands of yellow flowers and float them across the sacred river, a bridge to the beyond. This is not assembly-line work. So I read slowly.

It was all so beautiful, so quiet, and yet with such a full and thrilling sweep from time into eternity that my sorrow was stilled and I could wail no monody. My desolate hour must wait.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

While most of what you think of as memory involves retrieving information from the past, prospective memory, or memory for intentions, refers to our ability to remember our intention to carry out some specific action at a future time or circumstance.

The past has but one path, the present has many and the future none.

Because values on a clock face increase in a clockwise direction, we expect greater quantities to be indicated by greater arcs in a clockwise direction

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

If we could scrape away what time does to men, we would love every boy.

Work is a shit way to spend your time and everyone knows it.

At nineteen all proper adult ages are more or less the same. Thirty-seven, forty-five, sixty-two, a hundred and three. It hardly matters. They are all strange, faraway places you can't believe you'll ever visit.

We tend to remember the seasons of our lives by the soundtrack of that season

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.