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Quotes About Time

You couldn't have everything. At least, not all at the same time.
~ Val McDermid
Valmiki the Poet held all the moving world inside a water drop in his hand. The gods and saints from heaven looked down on Lanka, And Valmiki looked down at the gods in the morning of Time.
~ Valmiki
I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him
~ Van Draanen
Redder than a turkey's rump in poke berry time.
~ Vance Randolph
Pero como un vino, la pena de los días idos acrecienta su fuerza a medida que envejece
~ Vasili Grossman
gli scossoni della vita aiutano a capire che la vicinanza quotidiana e un'abitudine vecchia di anni sono quanto di significativo e poetico – nel senso autentico e sommo del termine – tiene insieme due persone che hanno camminato l'una accanto all'altra dalla giovinezza ai capelli bianchi.
~ Vasilij Grossman
A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones.
~ Vasily Grossman
Time worked unhurriedly, conscientiously. First the man was expelled from life, to reside instead in people's memories. Then he lost his right to residence in people's memories, sinking down into their subconscious minds and jumping out at someone only occasionally, like a jack-in-the-box, frightening them with the unexpectedness of his sudden, momentary appearances.
~ Vasily Grossman
Such is time: everything passes, it alone remains; everything remains, it alone passes. And how swiftly and noiselessly it passes. Only yesterday you were sure of yourself, strong and cheerful, a son of the time. But now another time has come – and you don't even know it.
~ Vasily Grossman
How can you tear something out of your heart? Your heart isn't made of paper and your life isn't written down in ink. You can't erase the imprint of years.
~ Vasily Grossman
Así es el tiempo: todo pasa, sólo él permanece. Todo permanece, sólo el tiempo pasa. ¡Qué ligero se va, sin hacer ruido! Ayer mismo todavía confiabas en ti, alegre, rebosante de fuerzas, hijo del tiempo. Y hoy ha llegado un nuevo tiempo, pero tú, tú no te has dado cuenta.
~ Vasily Grossman
Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength.
~ Vasily Grossman
Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.
~ Vasily Grossman
How many people there were like him – forgotten during unforgettable years.
~ Vasily Grossman
The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate grew correspondingly stronger.
~ Vasily Grossman
For a moment she felt she was about to reconcile this present time, the words of the man now kissing her, with that time in the past; that she was about to understand the secret currents of her life, about to glimpse what always remains hidden – those depths of the heart where one's fate is decided.
~ Vasily Grossman
Her friend had seen eighty summers, she, seventy-five.
~ Velma Wallis
Mors aurem vellens, 'Vivite,' ait, 'venio.
~ Vergil
I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.
~ Verne Harnish
So how do you figure out an X-Factor? Start by asking: What is the one thing I hate most about my industry? What is driving me nuts? What is the choke point constraining the company? It could be a massive cost factor. It could be a massive time factor. The challenge is that you're often too close to the situation and as blind as everyone else to the real problems that have been accepted as industry norms.
~ Verne Harnish
Poate c? este timpul s? v? fac portretul lui Jasmin; dar în întuneric- fiindc? ferestrele nu se deschid niciodat?, de vreme ce Jasmin nu exist? È™i, prin urmare, nu poate avea mam?, ceea ce este incontestabil, dup? cum v? va dovedi urmarea acestei poveÈ™ti- în întuneric, deci, descrierea nu ar fi exact?.
~ Vian Boris
Midnight The hours glide Like drops of water on a window pane Midnight silence Fear unrolls in the air And the wind hides at the bottom of the well OH It's a leaf We think the earth is going to end Time stirs in the shadow Everyone is asleep A SIGH Inside the house someone has just died
~ Vicente Huidobro
El reloj del cementerio se adelanta un poco.
~ Vicente Huidobro
Inventar consiste en hacer que las cosas que se hallan paralelas en el espacio se encuentren en el tiempo o viceversa, y que al unirse muestren un hecho nuevo.
~ Vicente Huidobro