Quotes About Time

I'm still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

She had spent her entire youth waiting and hoping for things that never happened. Now she was thirty.

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?" For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime." I can live with that," he said, and kissed her.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

History's a resource.

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world.

When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world. Anyway

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit—it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

The waiting's not the hard part. Waiting can be beautiful, lush, full of possibility.

How could 1906 and 1966 be part of the same century? In 1906, there had been no world wars, most people didn't have telephones and cars. In 1906, women couldn't vote and black men could by law, but not in practice.

August passed like a dancer, graceful and sweating.

The hostage hours had blurred into one another, anonymous as a line of smashed pumpkins.

Was I doing the right thing? Or being stupid for not following Liam's plan? Only time would tell. For now, I had to believe that whatever move kept Liam safe was not only the right solution, but the only solution.

Maybe the point is just to get through one hour, and then another, and not think farther ahead than that.

My whole life reminded me of how it felt to ride, when Greenie and I were little, in the back of Greenie's mother's car, an ancient Pacer with a seat that faced backward and left us staring at places we'd already been and drivers who didn't want to make eye contact. I was facing the wrong direction, but time still went forward, gliding toward destinations I couldn't see or choose.

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

She was grateful life could be long.

Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs.

It's a night out of time and a time out of place.

A veces tienes que esperar siglos a que ocurra alguna cosa y de golpe ocurren todas a la vez

Le han dictado pena máxima: sesenta años. Suena infinito y sin embargo es poco, no hay vida que alcance para pagar lo que hizo.

Escribir esta historia se me ha convertido en una carrera perdida de antemano contra el tiempo y la desmemoria, que son dos hermanos gemelos de dedos largos que todo lo tocan.