Quotes About Time

It would appear that we are nearly out of time," Janine Silva said, eying her vintage Spiro Agnew wristwatch....

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.

I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.

It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid growth of superstition. It's time the ghosts, or whatever you call them, took over and began a rule of fear, They'd be no worse than men.' ("Smoke Ghost")

Don't push the river, it flows by itself

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

The veterans would spend so much time tutoring the novices that they would lose track of their work. And by the time the new hires learned enough really to help, the group would have missed the deadline anyway. "For the same reason," Perazzoli said, "your wife's not going to have a baby in three months if you give her two more people." Even

As software pundit Fred Brooks once observed, "How does a project get to be a year late?... One day at a time." In

With software, you know what you have to do," he said, "but it's always a big surprise how long it will take." Miller

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.

Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.

The man who has the disease of tomorrow is the most unfortunate man in the world.

Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.

One third of our life is spent in sleep. It is consolation for the troubles of our waking hours or atonement for their pleasures; but I have never experienced sleep to be mere repose. After a few minutes lethargy, a new life begins, untrammeled by the limitations of time and space, and undoubtedly similar to that which awaits us after death...

un engourdissement nébuleux saisit notre pensée, et nous ne pouvons déterminer l'instant précis où le moi, sous une autre forme, continue l'œuvre de l'existence.

Slowly Hades retreats This time The transparent sea touches the shore The edge of fine sand shifts, softly, exactly

Hayallerimizin yeryüzüne ancak bize nanik yap?p a?z?m?za bir parmak bal, a?ulu bal gibi bir ?ey çalacak kadar bir zaman dilimi için indi?ini kesin olarak anlam??t?m.

I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.

She was one of those women who are usually referred to in the past tense, of whom one says: 'She had a certain freshness and bloom about her,' and whose freshness and bloom passed unnoticed even when she still had them.