Quotes About Time

It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it's not yet over, but there's no denying the time of day.

Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.

Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder. Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

Geneverie fought down panic. She had to make him land this plane. I give great blowjobs! Nick laughed. Wish I had the time to check that out. He continued to aim the gun right between her eyes as he reached behind him to unlatch the cabin door. (...) Nich smiled. But maybe you'de like to treat him to one of those blowjobs. You two will have a little time on your hands. Well, so long! He jumped.

That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.

if Romeo had lived to see Juliet grow old and develop a slight moustache upon her upper lip—what then?

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed.

Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.

Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.

All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.

He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Time is greedy, man is greedier

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come

Viaggiare è nascere e morire in ogni momento. Forse, nella più vaga regione della sua mente, faceva accostamenti tra quei mutevoli orizzonti e l'esistenza umana. Tutte le cose della vita sono continuamente in fuga davanti a noi. Gli ottenebramenti e le luci si frammischiano: dopo un abbagliamento, un'eclisse; si guarda, ci si affretta, si tendono le mani per afferrare ciò che passa; ogni evento è una svolta della strada; e d'un tratto si è vecchi.

He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment