Quotes About Time

I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town.

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

And here is the truth from which all others grow; here is the spring from which all others flow: soon I will be dead. Soon, as measured by stardust and time. Soon as measured by comets and dreams. Soon. Soon. Soon, I will be dead. And here is the question that determines everything—what will I do until then?.

Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value." So

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value.

It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, uncaring in the end.

Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

since time is a luxury you don't always have." He believed

But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

We're all stories, in the end.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

I had to keep checking the copyright page to remind myself this novel [Karl Moritz's Anton Reiser ] was published in 1785, not 1985.

In the end, he told himself some days, there is only what is done and what is not done. That is a life, that is what remains behind... It did not matter what sort of men or women they had been in life... his inner self would be lost to time, as he himself would be lost.

Had Stendhal believed in eternity? He had written that a person, no

ou think life goes on forever? You think behind every chance there's another chance and another one and another one? It's the worse kind of extravegance the way you spend your chances, Birdee.

Consider all the mortals that populated the earth before us, generation upon generation, extending back through countless centuries. All are dead, all turned to dust—so many, one wonders how the earth has room to hold them all.

Why every hundred and ten years?" "Because that is thought to be the longest possible length of a human life, and thus the schedule makes true the claim—any given man will see only one in his lifetime, if indeed he sees one at all. Thus the old joke: An athlete loses every competition at the Saecular Games, but he is comforted by a friend who tells him, 'Cheer up! I'm sure you'll win at the next Saecular Games!