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Quotes About Time

Please remember that our time on this Earth is not guaranteed. Please tell those you love that you do. Right now. This very minute. —SOPHIA BUSH
~ William D. Cohan
Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria.
~ William Dalrymple
According to the Puranas, the Kali Yug is the last age before the world is destroyed by the 'fire of one thousand suns', after which the cycle reaches its conclusion and time momentarily stops, before the wheel turns again and a new cycle begins. Rather
~ William Dalrymple
Love within my being. You lived with me, breath of my breath, Being in my being, nor left my side; But now the wheel of Time has turned And you are gone – no joys abide. You
~ William Dalrymple
for the first time a writer grappled, for example, with the question of how to deal with a multinational whose tentacles extended well beyond
~ William Dalrymple
Alice for short. A diochronism. (Title of novel)
~ William de Morgan
When in time of peace only one man can save us, we're hardly worth saving.
~ William Dean Howells
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
~ William Eardley IV
There are times in the lives of most of us when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
~ William Ewart Gladstone
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
I've seed de first en de last…. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.
~ William Faulkner
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
~ William Faulkner
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
~ William Faulkner
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
~ William Faulkner
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner
The world is still, for she is old And many´s the bead of life she´s told. Her gossip there, the watching moon Views hill and stream and wave and dune
~ William Faulkner
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
~ William Faulkner
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
~ William Faulkner
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
You have to hate how the world goes on.
~ William Finnegan
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...
~ William Gaddis
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
~ William Gaddis