Quotes About Time

When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.

There's a time to wink as well as to see 

Time is the "moving image of eternity."12

For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles slightly, but that's all.

I sensed that almost all of them knew they didn't have much more time on earth. Maybe this accounted for their willingness to pitch in with strangers and form a neighborhood.

He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.

Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.

Lowe arrived just in time … took them all aboard No. 14 … then set sail again for the Carpathia, still towing D.

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you could fly away.

Most of human life is defined by waiting

there was enough trouble in my trough; I'd save the reeducation of the white race for sometime later in the week.

He use' to play till the cock crowed, but that ole cock don't crow nearly so much no mo'.

The landlord and I have a little dispute going." "What kind of dispute?" "I haven't paid rent in seven years and he thinks that it's about time that I did." "And you don't?" "The only truth in the bible is where it says that stuff about money and evil," he said and then he hurried out.

WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that's for sure. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.

And my father!-oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!

But the whole circumstances of time, place, and incident, combined at once to awaken his imagination, and to call upon him for a manly and decisive tone of conduct, leaving to fate to dispose of the issue. Should

Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

and Dad's to celebrate Christmas Eve. It was going to be a happy time—her and Martin's first Christmas together. "No! No! No!

Time, yes … We waste it or save it or use it—one would almost think we mastered it instead of the other way around. Yet are all novels really a waste of the precious dimension? Perhaps you underestimate the value of invention.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Productive assets such as farms, real estate and, yes, business ownership produce wealth — lots of it. Most owners of such properties will be rewarded. All that's required is the passage of time, an inner calm, ample diversification and a minimization of transactions and fees.