Quotes About Time

Art is long, and time is fleeting.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and, ah, how old is my heart. —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

It goes that youth is wasted on the young, but I'm of a mind that the young waste youth.

I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.

Time's fickle. When you need it, there's too little of it. Then you wake up at three o'clock in the morning, and there's too much of it. It's usually better to take it that to anticipate it.

Why should emotions require a certain time pattern? They're as individual as the people they belong to.

As the wheel of time turned, there came those who pushed aside the old gods for the gods of greed, for the lust of dominion over the land and the sea, for the glory of what some deemed progress.

I'm sorry I'm late. Kay smiled and didn't look the least bit sorry. Everything takes longer then you think it does on Monday. Even if I pretend it's Tuesday It doesn't seem to help. I don't know why. Would you like some coffee?

elevator, "for more than two

We wasted time thinking when we should have been feeling.

could feel the power of it, of her across the dream. And he knew she was seeking him out. Even in sleep he felt the pull of her, and that same impatience he'd sensed from her within his circle, within his own time. It seemed for an instant that their

And you're right, too, it has to wait a little bit of time. At least long enough to get a booking at Ballintubber Abbey." "At . . ." Joy all but drowned her. "You'd marry me there?" "It's what you want, isn't it? And by God, it seems it's what I want as well. There, in the ancient and holy place. It's what's meant for us.

Good. I'll carve out some time for the vintner tomorrow, and you carve out some for the promotion whiz. Back to teamwork. Now, why haven't you kissed me hello?

History makes the best gossip. And tomorrow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, tomorrow's going to take care of itself anyway, isn't it?" He

the land goes on no matter who walks on it

years before.

I need you, your boat and your equipment for a month, maybe two. I can't dive alone because I just don't know the waters well enough to risk it, and I don't have the time to waste. I have to be back in Connecticut by the end of August." "To get more chalk dust under your fingernails." She sat back slowly. "You have no right to criticize my profession." "I'm sure the chalk's very exclusive at Yale," Ky commented.

Time's never lost, just spent on other matters.

close to midnight. I don't want to ask

Throughout the span of time, the worlds of Man often believe themselves singular. Those who believe and accept they aren't alone in the vastness tend to consider themselves superior to those who share the vastness.

Laszlo Bock, the former head of human resources at Google, has investigated the optimal amount of "work from home" time.45 He found it to be one and a half days a week. With this combination, employees both have time to connect and build bonds with each other and also time on their own to do deeper, undistracted work.

Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It's not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you faster than you had expected, and that you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying done as soon as you can.

According to whether one follows St Luke or St Matthew, the Christian Era began either in the last year of Herod the Great (4 BC) or in the year of the first Roman census in Judaea (AD 6–7).