Quotes About Time

Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.

I hope that most people at this point in time realize that Prince is one of the great poets of our time. I didn't say songwriter—I said poet. Prince is the closest thing we have to e. e. cummings and people are so stupid because they don't come in here and buy books of Prince poems.

Why doesn't he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn't it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan's shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.

cry. He knew that the light from stars was light that was dead already, that what you were seeing was the past, not your present, and certainly not your future.

Nothing stayed the same. That was scientific fact. He wouldn't do anything to push things in a new direction, but he knew that one way or another, life eventually would.

Of course, she'd also heard that rakes enjoyed the chase, the thrill of pursuing a reluctant woman, and she'd just scotched any prospect of that. But when she thought of how long it would take to entice Liam into wanting her, then pursuing her, pretending reluctance, before finally succumbing… Who had time for that? She wanted to know now.

I scarcely noticed the time passing. Miss Cross was kind enough to entertain me in the meantime." Papa chuckled. "I cannot fault you for forgetting me, then. She's far better company than I!" Hastings gave Eliza a warm glance. "I cannot disagree.

There is a time for all seasons," he quoted Scripture. "A time to break down and a time to build up. You've had your time to break down, and now it's your time to build up. Don't punish yourself for what you didn't do.

These ruins are to the future what the past is to us

Again time elapsed.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

It occurs to me for the first time that Lorelei is getting older—she must be eight years old by now—and that I may not have unlimited time to conduct my research. Or to enjoy the quiet pleasure of her company. I will lose her someday, that much is certain, and it makes me ache to think of it. But, as all dog owners must, I put the thought quickly out of my mind.

They're too young to understand how much of life is shaped by never the same.

This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; / Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

Immediate gratification takes too long.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either.

LetÂ''s say something happens, and from a certain slant maybe it'Â's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.

I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

It was a year that, like all years, a lot of things happened in.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. What that really means, other than what it sounds like, is, let's say something happens and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.

instant gratification takes too long." Anyway