Quotes About Time

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

The present generation doesn't know what a milestone is. They go so fast nowadays that miles mean nothing.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

In December 2008, I had the book with me while we waited for Dr. O'Reilly. Mom had already finished it. Every time I put the book down to go grab some mocha, or check my email, or make a call, I returned to find Mom rereading it, sneakily wolfing down passages as though I'd left behind a bag of cookies, not a book, and she was scooping up crumbs behind my back.

And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time.

But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time.

and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time, one could go to New Zealand.' The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference, there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal