Quotes About Time

History is the memory of States.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puede haber una crisis en la siguiente semana. Mi agenda ya está llena" (Henry Kissinger)

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

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After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

El hombre vive mas en el tiempo que en el espacio.

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

The only meaning of death is how I live my life now and what I will have to look back upon as I lie dying.

I am starting all over again, I said to myself once more, but am running out of time.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.

The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.

Mealtime "A mousie squealing in a trap Woke me from my morning nap. Wasn't he so very sweet To tell me it was time to eat?" (From A CAT'S GARDEN OF VERSES )

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them