Quotes About Time

I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already.

College is where I realized that God didn't need seven days to create the earth. He could party for six days, and pull an all-nighter.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Only old people go to church, when they know they're running out of time.

Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Good-bye isn't forever.

Ideally, each study session should last about 45 minutes before you give yourself a 5- or 10-minute break.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Grantland Rice, the dean of those sportswriters. "When a sportswriter stops making heroes out of athletes," Rice once said, "it's time to get out of the business.

The day set out from the east and started walking. The day is on a journey. We're woven into the design of that day, though we're not inventing it

It's only by spending time with Jesus that our thoughts, words, and actions will ever be transformed into His image.

Others specializing in the field of grief recovery state that the most difficult time following the death of a loved one is usually between seven and nine months afterward.

Back in our silences and sullen looks, for all the Scotch we drink, what's still between us not the thirty or so years, but books, books, books.

The Land of Room Enough, and Time.

That just two things we know for certain. That we're born and in a little while we die. It's what we do in the time between that matters. That's what the One Who Made Us thinks about when he decides what happens to us next.

Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.

But if I'd known I was going to live so damn long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Leaphorn didn't comment. It was the decision he would have made. Handle it on Navajo time. No reason to rush in there.

Did he expect to be in a hurry coming down? Maybe, Leaphorn thought. Maybe that was it. Time. But Navajos didn't hurry. In fact, there was no word in the Navajo language for time.

My dad taught us that being late is really rude. It tells the other person you think you're more important than they are.

This hour of the evening with a little infinity inside, like an amnesty from the interminable condition of being oneself.