Quotes About Time

One can be a product only of one's own era, not anyone else's.

Memories about the past are always about the present.

His eyes were alert despite the hour and the green chew

Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa. É obra de séculos.

O herói, o santo, o gênio ou o profeta do nosso tempo há de ser neurótico. O sujeito se angustia porque se opõe a um mundo que fracassou

Mary looked at her gratefully. "Well, that's what I think. I mean, I couldn't bear to—to just stop doing things and do nothing. You might as well die now and get it over." Moira nodded. "If what they say is right, we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

A Congreve clock?' Captain Petersen was puzzled. 'It's a clock that keeps time by a steel ball running on a zig-zag track down an inclined plane,' Keith told him. 'Only it doesn't keep very good time. It takes thirty seconds for the ball to run down one way — then the plane tilts and it runs back again. It's quite fascinating to watch.

Moira nodded. "If what they say is right, we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

I mean, why waste time in sleeping?" She laughed, a little shrilly. "Just doesn't make sense.

Life gets tedious," she quoted. "Not sometimes. All the time.

One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one's personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one's contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one's hair is white.

Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.

with me,it is 'better never than late

There may be a lesson here for our time, too. The first era of financial globalization took at least a generation to achieve. But it was blown apart in a matter of days. And it would take more than two generations to repair the damage done by the guns of August 1914.

there could be no planning because no one had time for it

annus mirabilis

when set in its proper historical context, the present time appears less unnervingly unprecedented and more familiar.

In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years.

No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past.

why, when its causes today seem so numerous and so obvious, were contemporaries so oblivious of Armageddon until just days before its advent? One possible answer is that their vision was blurred by a mixture of abundant liquidity and the passage of time.

Systems can be fast, open, or secure, but only two of these three at a time.'51 The threat to world order can be summed up as 'very fast networks x artificial intelligence x black boxes x the New Caste x compression of time x everyday objects x weapons'.52

For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.

And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.

For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he cannot deviate from the course to which nature inclines him, and because, having always prospered while adhering to one path, he cannot be persuaded that it would be well for him to forsake it. And so when occasion requires the cautious man to act impetuously, he cannot do so and is undone: whereas had he changed his nature with time and circumstances, his fortune would have been unchanged.