Quotes About Time

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El pasado no tiene poder sobre el momento presente (Eckhart Tolle)

I have had moderately meaningful relationships in which I invested less time than what I have spent on some BioWare games.

I hoped that as time passed I would be able to raise the cancer shade and allow more light into my daily life. Until then it is CANCER EVERY WAKING MOMENT and the realization that it will be with me until the end, by whatever means.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can?for a time. But not a very long time.

The arts and soldiering took time to acquire – time and discipline and desire. No, he was up against bullies. And bullies were cowards. These were mercenaries who acted for money. Shot as, on the other hand, took great pride that he performed his DUTIES for love of country and, though he didn't quite think of it in those terms, for love of his fellow soldiers.

The helicopter ride was twenty-five minutes exactly

Mr. President, I will transmit your message within the hour. Please keep in mind, however, the time differential between Washington and Moscow—" "I know that a weekend has just begun, and that the Soviet Union is a worker's paradise, but I expect that some of your country's managers may still be at work.

time was the ultimate commodity, and you were born with only so much to spend, and there was no passbook to tell you the exact amount.

Sembra un paradosso ma per x esser davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

Sembra un paradosso ma per essere davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

sembra un paradosso ma per esser davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

as Charles Handy puts it: "It has always seemed to me slightly bizarre that we should queue up to sell our time to someone else. It's a form of slavery, voluntary slavery. We think it's great but it's crazy.

Better to have lots of time than lots of money in those early years. There will be time later for earning.

The tempo of modern life is such that we are giving less and less time and thought to the matter of cooking and feeding . . . it is a pretty crazy life when one eats to work and does not work in order to eat.

it was all very well for Neville to talk blithely about chucking in this job and getting a nice one instead, but it had taken him a very long time to find anybody who was prepared to trade him money for a part of his lifespan, and the only people who'd proved willing to make such a deal were, by any criteria, as crazy as a barrelful of ferrets.

Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square . . .

I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is. Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort. conversation between Georgie and Lucia

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed and jittery, as if the last few grains of sand were at that very moment sliding through the narrow waist of an hourglass. Any unforeseen occurrence-road construction, an inexperienced cashier, a missing set of keys-could plunge her into a mood of frantic despair that could poison an entire day.

And right now he was feeling the weight of all those losses, and the weight of the years that were behind him, and the weight of the ones that were still ahead, however many there might be – three or four, twenty or thirty, maybe more.

It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.

She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.

She knew exactly what was weighing him down: that helpless feeling that you were wasting your precious youth and it was your own damn fault.