Quotes About Time

In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself

Si queremos formar una institución duradera, no pensemos en hacerla eterna

There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time.

Di solito si ottiene con tutta sicurezza e assai presto ciò che non si ha fretta di ottenere.

vivía en tan grato sosiego distribuyendo el tiempo entre mi trabajo, mi instrucción y mis placeres

There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you wi l seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.

J'étais fait pour vivre, et je meurs sans avoir vécu.

On obtient très sûrement et très vite ce qu'on n'est pas pressé d'obtenir.

A man who lives ten years for himself and others without the help of doctors lives more for himself and others than one who spends thirty years as their victim.

Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time—must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau.

We are ever looking forward or backward, ruminating on what is past, and can return no more, or anticipating the future, which may never arrive; there is nothing solid to which the heart can attach itself, neither have we here below any pleasures that are lasting.

Dans cet âge heureux où rien ne marquait les heures, rien n'obligeait à les compter, le temps n'avait d'autre mesure que l'amusement et l'ennui.

You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing, and that a child ill taught is further from virtue than a child who has learnt nothing at all. You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing. What! is it nothing to be happy, nothing to run and jump all day? He will never be so busy again all his life long.

There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you will seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.

The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.

All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real.

And you, Mackie," said the doctor. "It's been a long time.

The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You'd spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on, it would wrinkle as soon as he bent an elbow; plus, you couldn't even see whether the danged shirt was ironed or not under his suit coat.

Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.

She also lent me her books, saying reading was a way of traveling the world, getting to know people you'll never meet, also traveling through time, getting to know people who lived long ago.

She also lent me her books, saying reading was a way of traveling the world, getting to know people you'll never meet, also traveling through time, getting to know people who lived long ago.