Quotes About Time

Many historians emphasize the catastrophic breaks, ruptures, turning points, as the true stuff of history, but the field would be incomplete without a look into the continuities.

Give me a few minutes." "You have time." He sat in the grass. "Are you just going to sit there and watch me?" "Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best." "Peasant?" He shrugged. "You started the name calling.

I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn't want to be late.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

Oh no, is it naked time?

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

If you can't make it go away, wait it out.

She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

How long does it take?" I asked. "I'm sorry?" "How long does it take you to get dressed for work in the morning?" "Two and a half hours," she said. "Do they pay you overtime for that?

Attosecond?" Gaston asked. "I'm guessing it's a very, very small fraction of a second," I said. "One quintillionth of a second," George said, without raising his head from his reader. Jack pondered him. "Have you started memorizing random crap again to amuse yourself?" "No, I'm connected to the wireless," George said. "I googled it.

When you're playing in the NFL, you can only do this for a short amount of time. Guys retire before they're 30. If you play forever, you play into your 40s - and you're still a young man with a lot of life left to live.

I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can do that; it's OK to be an idiot. But I woke up one day, and I realized that 35 years had gone by.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.

I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.

Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'

I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.

In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.