Quotes About Time

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

so we texted about getting some "quality time" in then. We were long practiced at assuring this, which worked for us. But we all know the truth: real "quality time" happens without you knowing it's happening

The entire reason is gone, like the old-time writers who at some point found that very few people, if any, actually practiced reading anymore. But at least those writers had time, the change happening over many decades, until readers became rare enough that they were believed to be nearly extinct, like some twitchy, sensitive creatures who lingered in the twilight brush.

When people are enjoying a film they say I didn't see the time go by… but I think that when time flies and you don't see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because all you have in life is time. With my films you're aware of every second passing through your body.

Esperar, dicen. El qué no importa. Por eso de pie es conveniente. En otra posición esperar acorta la esperanza

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

Al parecer, era la época de abrazar a Sookie y nadie me había avisado.

Even at the beginning of fall—which is only a date on the calendar in Texas;

No, I don't think so. There was still plenty of light. I got there at

I'd only had time pass by in such a slip-sliding way when I'd been badly injured.

people could bury the most serious and painful of memories, if you gave them enough time and distraction.)

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

Tu novio-repitió-. Eso suena... joven. Y hace mucho que no lo soy. Eric Northman

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long.

I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

I had a good time at Liverpool. They were great lads. The manager had his reasons to keep me on the bench, and at the same time, they were on a good run.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

My family and I go every year to Lake Tahoe for Fourth of July. It is honestly my favorite place in the world to spend time with my family.