Quotes About Time

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time. Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor. The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then.

Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE DAY THAT WE GREW APART

I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country on one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much, so much, to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

The worst thing would be to decide that it was love, and then to discover - after one was taken - that it hadn't been. No: the worst thing would be to decide that it wasn't love, and then to discover years later - old and unconsoled - that it had been. No: the worst thing - the worst, worst thing - was this having to decide.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.

It was a patient business, talking comets down to the speed of life.

Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.

Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart,

I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case." "Oh god, is it wartime already?" "Look on the bright side: it'll be dinner when we get back.

He reached out a hand behind the headrest of his seat and Kate took it, and they squeezed. The pressure created a fixed point in time, to which so many accelerating events could be anchored.

You could have lost your gloves in the fog and found them half an hour later, still suspended in the air at wrist height.

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

This is the real reason why no one tells us Africans anything. It is not because anyone wants to keep my continent in ignorance. It is because nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Or maybe you would like to, but you can't. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works.

Nkiruka loved music, and now I saw that she was right because life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

What he had not understood, before battle, was that time could become a ribbon to be looped and pinned back to its center, the petals of a black rosette. I

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.