Quotes About Time

These days won't last forever. No days ever do, though sometimes it's hard to convince oneself of that.

You have spent 94 years in the hall of abstinence.

As we reach midlife, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Patience is the secret to good food.

If you have too much good luck when you are young," Mah-mee said, "there won't be any luck left for when you are old.

Perhaps the dull ache I'm feeling comes from letting go, the realization that some memories should be left as just that, a moment in time when the fruits of life are at their sweetest.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?

But these things are past and gone.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

For here, the moment all the spaces along the road between here and there - which the young know are infinite and all others know are not - get used up, that's it.

Yoga doesn't take time, it gives time.

Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme.

had to be maintained. It took only minutes to carve a fresh

The bottom line here -- and I use the phrase with an eye to the mind-set that promotes these 'systems' -- is that I am increasingly devoting more time to the generation and recording of data and less time to the educational substance of what the data is supposed to measure. Think of it as a man who develops ever more elaborate schemes for counting his money, even as he forfeits more and more of his time for earning the money he counts.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

The little town that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve.

Christians are to avoid foolish living. Wise living understands the folly of immorality and the value of doing whatever is pleasing to the Lord. The days are so evil, and the need for properly functioning, serving Christians is so great, wise Christians will make good use of their time, taking opportunities for ministry as they come. Knowledge of the moral will of God will give discernment not only between good and evil, but between what is wise and what is foolish.

Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.