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Quotes About Time

I think about what I didn't say then, which is this: the stars we see aren't even real stars. We see the light that they gave off millions of years ago but that is only now reaching our eyes. We don't see a star as much as a memory.
~ James Patterson
And then I'm thinking - is it so impossible to imagine or believe? - that a man and a woman can find happiness together for a little while, which afterall, is all that we have. All anyone has.
~ James Patterson
Time to die. Angel said in her sweet little girl voice.
~ James Patterson
Oh no, it's tomorrow again.
~ James Patterson
Regret is a waste of time.
~ James Patterson
Because today after all, is all we knew.
~ James Patterson
I was thirty-eight at the time. As the saying goes, if I'd known I was going to live that long, I would have taken better care of myself.
~ James Patterson
Father Alfred D'Souza. D'Souza had written: "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 got 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
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 got 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
I wanted an endless summer with you. But then darkness always comes doesn't it? Just a fact of life, i guess
~ James Patterson
There is something so precious about watching your child day after day after day. I want to hold on to every moment, every smile, every single hug and kiss. I suppose it has to do with loving to be needed and needing to give love.
~ James Patterson
Five minutes," I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?
~ James Patterson
Suddenly, the only thing I could hear in my head was the voice of then-senator Howard Baker during the Watergate hearings, asking one of the most famous—if not the most famous—political questions of all time. What did the president know and when did he know it? Then
~ James Patterson
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
~ James Patterson
We couldn't know the future or how long it would last. We could only choose to be happy and alive right now.
~ James Patterson
A vida é aquilo que acontece quando se está ocupado a fazer outros planos
~ James Patterson
waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time
~ James Patterson
We're all on death row, ultimately. Are you so stupid that don't see that? Sure, you kids in here, as enemies of the system, will assuredly die earlier than most. As well you should. But all of us everywhere have a one-way ticket to death.
~ James Patterson
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~ James Patterson
It's just you, your homework, and the homework room. All. Day. Long. I turned thirteen in that room. Winter ended, and then spring came and went. Wars happened. Trees grew. Babies were born and people died.
~ James Patterson
I sat on the kitchen stool long enough
~ James Patterson
Whether it is as fleeting as the sun-kissed days of summer or lasts nearly a lifetime, love is always worth it.
~ James Patterson
Meeting is the beginning of parting.' We remember the past, but live for the present, because even the present will be the past someday.
~ James Patterson
TWENTY-TWO HOURS AND FORTY-NINE MINUTES LATER (NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING OR ANYTHING) To:
~ James Patterson