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Quotes About Time

Time had removed him and it would not allow him to go back.
~ James Lee Burke
She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.
~ James Lileks
If we haven't got time to pray to The Lord for help then we haven't got much time at all do we?
~ James Lincoln Collier
The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.
~ James Lovegrove
You can't change the past and you can't do aught but rue the way you sometimes acted back when you were young and stupid and thought you were immortal. Doesn't prevent you from wishing you could.
~ James Lovegrove
The Sith are not placid stars but singularities. Rather than burn with muted purpose, we warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design.
~ James Luceno
He raised his gaze to the ecliptic. The answers were out there, coded in light, speeding through space and time. Liquid fire coursing through him, visions of past and future riffling through his mind, he opened himself to the reconfigured galaxy, as if in an effort to peel away the decades
~ James Luceno
The Carrion Spike may already be in motion," Tarkin said, squaring his shoulders. As if in echo of Tarkin's posture of readiness, Vader planted his fists on his hips. "Then we have no time to spare.
~ James Luceno
Dr. Aldous was Bert's rector, and for a miserable moment Mildred felt ashamed that she could claim no rector as her own. As a child she had gone to the Methodist Sunday school, but then her mother had begun to shop around, and finally wound up with the astrologers who had named Veda and Ray. Astrologers, she reflected unhappily, didn't quite seem to fill the bill at this particular time.
~ James M. Cain
a solitary middle-aged man in the August of life looking for a few more Aprils, an
~ James McBride
I been around the sun one hundred four whole times and nobody's explained nothing to me.
~ James McBride
There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute, he said. I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.
~ James McBride
B]ut you remind me of things I can't think about no more. I'm in the last October of life looking for a few more Aprils. I don't want to remember no more.
~ James McBride
There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute, he said. I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.
~ James McBride
It must be one of life's little jokes... how we take everything, even life itself, for granted. We waste our childhoods wishing for what we don't have, longing for the future, dreaming of ways to speed the time so we can hurry up and see the world. And in our later years, we'd give anything just to slow things down and go back to what we once had.
~ James Michael Rice
If we think in terms of our existence here, it means operating within the limits of life on earth. If we are thinking of time, it means disregarding the eternal and thinking only of the "now.
~ James Montgomery Boice
Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help but be surprised that coffee hadn't been thus immortalized.
~ James P. Blaylock
I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow, i said, warming to the idea. It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen. (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen! Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. Wanna be fifteen? His smile melted me. Yeah.
~ James Patterson
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.
~ James Patterson
Fang: When do I get out of here? Max: They say a week. Fang: So, like, tomorrow? Max: That's what I'm thinking.
~ James Patterson
There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.
~ James Patterson
It is my time. The time of maximum ride...
~ James Patterson
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
~ James Patterson
Time to die. -Evil Angel
~ James Patterson