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Quotes About Time

You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?
~ Cassandra Clare
Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.
~ Cassandra Clare
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
~ Cassandra Clare
Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.
~ Cassandra Clare
Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.
~ Cassandra Clare
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
~ Cassandra Clare
mollusks"—Einstein's word for entities in a relativistic world.
~ George Gilder
Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The
~ George Gilder
To the Austrian economics of subjectivity, time provides an objective foundation.
~ George Gilder
Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.
~ George Gilder
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow
~ George Gordon Byron
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
~ George Gordon Byron
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,       Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;       'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link       Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his.
~ George Gordon Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles; as the old burst, new emerge, Lash'd from the foam of ages; while the graves Of Empires heave but like some passing waves.
~ George Gordon Byron
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
~ George Gordon Byron
Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.
~ George Gordon Byron
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
~ George Gordon Byron
The humblest individual under heaven,   Than might suffice a moderate century through. I knew that nought was lasting, but now even   Change grows too changeable without being new.
~ George Gordon Byron
Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be. [First published, Childe Harold, 1812
~ George Gordon Byron
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably—at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe diem' is not enough—I have been obliged to crop even the seconds—for who can trust to tomorrow?
~ George Gordon Byron
I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines.
~ George Grossmith
I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines
~ George Grossmith
I would suggest that true literacy—the kind that matters—brings about clearer thinking and informed action. Thus, true biblical literacy involves an interaction with the Bible that changes the way one thinks and acts, and that kind of interaction takes time.
~ George H. Guthrie
Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.
~ George Hammond