Quotes About Time

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

Su padre había intentado advertírselo. Si vendes tu alma al diablo, sólo será cuestión de tiempo que venga a buscarla. Pero su padre no le advirtió que el demonio podía ser tan hermoso que ella sentiría la tentación de entregarle el alma sin dar la pelea.

If we take our time, tapping into the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, the road map of our mission, our lives will slowly change and develop according to God's plan for

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

Every effort should be made to meet the needs of the nondisordered children in the family, but spouses have the same needs, too. The need for one-on-one quality time between spouses is often overlooked. Indeed, after each day spent trying to meet the needs of all children in the family as well as working a job and attending to all of life's other chores, it is most often the husband or wife who gets ignored. Parents need time away from the concerns of the world to focus just on each other.

If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?

Children, in fact, spend more than fourteen thousand hours inside a school building over twelve years of schooling.

It's time to start storing up our treasures in heaven, instead of hoarding them on earth.

S e am gum bidh an dearbhadh de gaol siorruidh.' 'Tis time that will be the proof of love everlasting.

How close the past looms, circling the present like a dead moon, lifting slow repetitious tides on the living planet.

We are the sum of our lives and not simply pieces of them. We are the whole of our time in this world.

It was the nature of things, of course. Life went on. The best you could do was to hold on to the memories that were important to you, so that even if everyone else forgot, you would remember.

Some decisions cannot be made in advance of the time that will demand them. We cannot always anticipate the way in which things will happen and therefore cannot anticipate what we will do. We must accept that.

Much of what happens to us in life is due to chance and circumstances beyond our control. Being in the right place at the right time. Discovering that others have impacted us more than we know and for reasons that are not entirely clear. But hard work matters, too. There is an old saying: The harder I work, the luckier I get.

The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

Put the past behind you and the future ahead where they belong and spend your time in the present with the rest of us.

Life just swept you along and never took you back to where you had been.

Past, present, and future, the symbiosis of our lives, the old man continued quietly, gently. Our birth, our life, our death, all tied into a single package that we spend our time on this earth unwrapping. Sometimes we see clearly what it is we are looking at. Sometimes we do not. Sometimes things happen to distract or deceive us, and we must look more carefully at what it is we hold.

Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.

Everything changes with time's passage. Only change itself is constant.

He was waiting, and the waiting was painful. Not because he didn't know how to wait, but because he didn't know what he was waiting for.

Il passato era solo un ricordo, un vecchio promemoria di ciò che era andato perduto. Il futuro una vaga promessa-sogni e spire di fumo. Non gli interessavano.

Time was as thin as hope.