Quotes About Time

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

If you decide to buy bonds or a bond fund, make sure the average maturity is less than the time horizon of the savings.

A quote often misattributed to Mark Twain has it that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Or in the words of Tennyson: There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O, earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

Time itself comes in drops.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.

Entender con la imaginación -solía decir Ombric- es conquistar los límites del tiempo y del espacio.

Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was feeling the effects of time. "Here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring will give way," Jefferson grumbled in a note to Adams. He could no longer walk very far, although he tried to ride two or three hours a day.

LOSS COMES IN every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is past will never come again.

Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.

I've come four decades since but I'm not sure that even now I fully understand. I still spend a lot of time thinking about the events of that summer. About the terrible price of wisdom. The awful grace of God.

Since I first entered this world, what awaits has always been before me. If I turn this way or that, it is still there, waiting, more patient than any human being.

There is a river that runs through time and the universe, vast and inexplicable, a flow of spirit that is at the heart of all existence, and every molecule of our being is a part of it. And what is God but the whole of that river? … Perhaps the most important truth I've learned across the whole of my life is that it's only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.

THERE IS A river that runs through time and the universe, vast and inexplicable, a flow of spirit that is at the heart of all existence, and every molecule of our being is a part of it. And

Smells are the time machines of human perception. A scent can take you instantly back to a particular place and time.

she couldn't help wondering what became of human beings who lived too long without beauty.

I understood that the past is never really past. We live out history over and over, the worst of our memories right there alongside us, step for step, our companions to the grave.

brother? It is still light out. It is not yet reading time.' Tyrion looked guiltily at the copy of Maderion's Tales of the Caledorian Epoch that lay on the chipped table beside the bed. He walked over to the windows. The drapes were fusty and smelled of mould. Cold air whistled in through gaps in the shutters, despite the torn shreds of sacking he had stuffed into the gaps. There was no place in the old

We need to give some time to the arts of cherishing the things we adore, before they simply vanish. Maybe it will be like learning a skill: how to live in paradise.

I have an idea that is is what enduring love really means, Your memories of a girl at seventeen become as real and vivid as the middle-aged woman sitting in front of you. It is a happy sort of double vision, this seeing and remembering. To be seen this way is to be known.