Quotes About Time

Everyday is one less day.

Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the consequences?

Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.

I poach for stories. I poach because I want to recover the paths while there's still time, before the last logging trucks rumble through and the old, dark ways are at last forever hewn.

Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known him for years, like Ingersoll, did you realize you hardly knew him at all.

They'd already shouted to each other the facts, but they hadn't had time to press the hurt spots.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

How much longer?"he asked, trying to be casual. "For ever, if you keep interrupting.

So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.

Time erodes both steel and stone.' So Ovid had written in the months before his death.

Spirits flung down from heaven at the beginning of time still stalked the earth, hunting human prey;

January 10, the seven-hundred-and-fifth year since the foundation of Rome, the forty-ninth before the birth of Christ.

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

In 'The King's Speech ' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Enjoy yourself it is later than today"!

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.

Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power.

Only the very simple can work in war," as Clausewitz observed. Complex drills simply won't work, even leaving aside that the time required to condition something goes up with that something's complexity, even as the probability of conditioning it drops.

Dat zou pas een boek zijn. Nog tijdens het lezen mag het papier verbrokkelen en rotten. Of nee, de inkt vergaat. Dat ware nog het mooist. Je bent onder aan een bladzijde, de duim waarmee je het boek vasthoudt, bevindt zich rechts onderaan, vlak onder het laatste woord, je blikt omhoog, naar de bladzijde die je net hebt gelezen, en de bovenste regel is al helemaal verdwenen, opgeslokt door de blankheid van zijn blad.

Wat is de duurtijd van een boek in tijden die zich van boeken lijken af te wenden?

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.