Quotes About Time

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

One cannot learn the things that unmask wisdom at the speed to which we have become accustomed in contemporary living. There are no short cuts.

Apart from sleeping, how do you spend most of your time? Like money, time is a window into your

Do you see how money and time reveal your heart in relation to God and others? How you use time and money in your human relationships says much about your relationship with God.

And we have no more control over the not yet than we have had over the already.

I wanted to serve, but it had to be on my terms and on my time schedule.

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!" Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: "Nay, come, let's go together.

Our time is certainly out of joint. We have forgotten history for one reason and, if we are not careful, we will neglect it for another. We will have to repair our own sense of time if we wish to renew our commitment to liberty.

The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

making an eternity of the

As economic inequality grew, time horizons shrank, and fewer Americans believed that the future held a better version of the present. Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere - education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations - Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.

Brezhnev. It was Brezhnev who proved to be Stalin's most important successor, because he redefined the Soviet attitude to time: he buried the Marxist politics of inevitability, and replaced it with a Soviet politics of eternity.

The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.

The politics of the greater evil was a common creation at a time of chaos. —

I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.

I remember wishing the moment would hold forever; that we could be fixed there, laughing and irredescent... Then I got panicky because I knew it would pass; that it was passing already.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.