Quotes About Time

More than a hundred years have passed since we learned that the "present of the universe" does not exist.

But the past, he concluded, was as dead as a smashed Victrola record. "Chasing yesterdays," said he, "is a bum show".

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Find your own free time and use this stage of your life as an investment; finding your allies (your lifetime clients) will create astounding results for the rest of your life.

Why double? Because you are positioning yourself as someone experienced, reliable, who offers what your clients value most, highly recommended by key influencers, and above all, extremely honest to guarantee results based on key concerns (or else you will act responsibly to live up to the credibility you've built), not to mention that your time becomes more valuable as the demand increases.

Perder tempo em aprender coisas que não interessam, priva-nos de descobrir coisas interessantes.

Carlos, sossegue, o amor é isso que você está vendo: hoje beija, amanhã não beija, depois de amanhã é domingo e segunda-feira ninguém sabe o que será.

O tempo é a minha matéria. O tempo presente, os homens presentes, a vida presente.

Amor é cada dia Outro sem deixar de ser o Antigo, e são muitos outros concentrados e não compendiados na potencialidade de amar. Assim sendo, recomendo e requeiro e decreto que todos os dias do ano sejam Dias do Amor, e não mais disso ou daquilo, como erradamente se convencionou e precisa ser corrigido. Tenho dito. Cumpra-se." Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in 'O Poder Ultrajovem

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

Ço?unlukla bir kitaptan kurtulmak ona sahip olmaktan daha zordur. Kitaplar sanki asla dönemeyece?imiz bir an?n tan?klar? gibi, bir ihtiyaç ve unutkanl?k anla?mas?yla tutunurlar insana.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Memories are worse than bullets.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

Now that the day is repeating, I have no idea what to do with myself," Lyle says. "I can't finish the book I've been working on for the past five months. Every time I go to sleep, the words I write disappear. It's frustrating as hell. The only books I'll ever write are the ones that are already finished. Anything I do from now on won't last.

I'm going to be right here. By your side. I'm not going to let our time pass us by. No way. No how.

I haven't got time for the pain.

When we view these enormous stone monuments today we see them in gray stone, but this is not how they once were.

Nothing lasts for those who are born to die, Both fortune and misfortune hurry by.

For a pair of eyes and a pair of ears to fix images and sounds in the temporal order in which they happen is no easy task; their memory enjoys making fun of the tyranny of time.