Quotes About Time

Life management problems

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate.

Fancy – day after day of summer sunshine, in April. The house grows dusty and neglected because we spend so much time outdoors.

a short seven miles away is the Neolithic village called Skara Brae. There is preserved a huddle of roofless huts, dug half underground into midden and sand dune. There, you can marvel at the domestic normality, that late Stone Age people had beds and cupboards and neighbours and beads. You can feel both their presence, their day-to-day lives, and their utter absence. It's a good place to go. It re-calibrates your sense of time.

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate. At least, that's what I'd been lucky enough to learn. THE GANNETRY the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea —W.

But Time was a fickle ally, fleeting and inconstant

temporal shift, Rae remained

I'm sure your father thought he'd have more time. Hadn't we all.

je t'ai aimé dans le passé je t'aime aujourd hui t'aimerais encore dans l'avenir Le temps revient. I have loved you before I love you today and I will love you again. The time returns.

I have loved you before, I love you today, And I will love you again. The time returns.

I am doing it because the time is now, and I am here.

It won't happen again, I swear it!" Karic rasped. "If we'd reached my lair in time it never would have happened at all!" "But it did, it did and nothing will ever be the same!

religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

from Return of Swamp Thing It's the old impasse: I don't know what to wait for.

In our culture, time can seem like an enemy....But the monastic perspective welcomes time as a gift from God and seeks to put it to good use rather than allowing us to be used up by it.....Liturgical time is essentially poetic time, oriented toward process rather than productivity, willing to wait attentively in stillness, rather than always pushing to get the job done

An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain.

Death is something you can add to every day.

Not this or that But all is amiss, That I have done, And I have seen Sin and sorrow Befoul the world - Release me, death, Forgive, remove From place and time The trace of all That I have been.

Time only goes in that one direction.

But there was no way to know, and no way to go back. I could not revise. I had been who I had been, and so I largely remained.

He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it.

He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.