Quotes About Time

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

In the course of the century, so many individual decisions are made that no single one of them is ever critical. Each decision is lost in the torrent of judgments that make up a century.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Let us now divide the time interval from o to t into a large number of very short time intervals and draw vertical lines as shown in the figure, thus forming a large number of thin tall rectangles.

During each short time interval the motion is assumed to proceed with a constant velocity corresponding to that time, and the distance covered is equal to this velocity multiplied by the time interval.

But since the velocity is equal to the height of the thin rectangle, and the time interval to its base, this product is equal to the area of the rectangle.

Repeating the same argument for each thin rectangle, we come to the conclusion that the total distance covered during the time interval (o,t) is equal to the area of the staircase or, in the limit, to the area of the triangle ABC.

Avanzamos más de prisa o la calle se vuelve más corta: a fin de cuentas, da lo mismo.

True music… must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.

Midas's error was to mistake gold, wealth's monetary measure, for wealth itself. But wealth is not a thing or a random sequence. It is inextricably rooted in hard won knowledge over extended time.

Say something. Something smart. Our stares connected. His eyes were still the same; calculating, lupine, and heated by amber magic from within. "You're late," I told him. Yes! Brilliant. I said a thing and it made sense. It had a subject and a verb and they went together. Catalina Baylor one, Instagram Alessandro a big fat zero. "Beauty takes time." "Oh, get over yourself." I stepped aside.

Eight years had passed. Everything about me had changed, but I was still in love with Derek Gaunt.

That's what marriage was, at the core—the exclusive right to spend as much time with someone you loved as they were willing to give.

You have a strange look on your face," he said. "I just realized I shouldn't be in the same vehicle with you. In fact, I shouldn't have called you in the first place, so I'm trying very hard to rewind time.

Did he kill Grandmother?" I whispered. "Don't be ridiculous," Erra's voice said in my ear. "She is already dead. Besides, your grandmother was the Shield of Assyria. Even if he committed every drop of his power to it, he couldn't stomp her out of existence. She's buying us time. He's got a busy night ahead of him.

Arabella did not need backup. Most of the time she was the backup, the field artillery, and the air support, but Nevada taught me to always have an exit strategy.

Eventually Victoria will die. She's old. And that didn't sound morbid. Not at all.

You did more than anyone could ask. You bought more than enough time for Cornelius to deploy his iron pan and for Rynda to escape.

While there I had picked up a few vital crumbs of information, and I knew the first twenty-four hours of any investigation were crucial. The more time passed, the colder the trail grew. In a missing person case, that meant the chances of finding that missing person alive dropped by the hour. The first twenty-four had come and gone. The first forty-eight were waving good-bye from the window of the "you suck at your job" train.

He owned their souls. They thought he was God. "When

It was Wednesday now. She'd been in town for two days.