Quotes About Time

I shut my eyes and feel the memories crowding in again. My breath leaks out and time goes backward with it.

The British never seem to do anything until they've had a cup of tea, By which time it's too late.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Patience was not my strong point.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

like this – I'd thought it would be neat and tidy, one reporter at a time. I didn't know then how Charlie Einfeld

She wrinkles up her nose. "It's ten o'clock in the morning." "So? It's never too early for chocolate.

What if you didn't have time to draw them on one day? Or what if it rained and your eyebrows started dripping off? Hopefully her eye pencil is waterproof.

How long have people thought about the present as having weight, as being a thing disconnected from other things, as an obstacle to living?

Bide your time, until things begin to make sense

YOU CAN MISS A LOT IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE {RULE 52}.

Don't wait too long to be rescued, old lady – you might pass your sell-by date.

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

In any case, in general, I prefer to avoid conflict when I can. Not because I'm afraid or because I'm too weak to fight back. But because conflict eats up your time. It is exhaustive in terms of energy you have to expend to be involved in it. More if you mean to win, and I'd never do it if I didn't mean to win. I'd rather spend my time on other things and in general, most people aren't worth that much of my time and energy.

From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing , a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: "You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God." The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk's words console, too. For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward. That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps.

After a certain amount of time with someone, crisis is an aphrodisiac.

Life really does go on. That's what I've learned. It goes.

The point of life is not to be a young girl forever, unless you're particularly vapid and stupid... There ain't nothing happening on a roll of white paper

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

It must be the nowness of this disease that, in stealing the past and obscuring the future, forces us, the healthy and the ill, to stay in the moment.

In galactic terms, four years is but a nano-second.

It seemed like a lifetime ago.

Time is the fabric that makes space possible.

eight-o-five, Lars still wasn't here, and Ty had switched