Quotes About Time

It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.

You know what I hate?' she said. 'When people say that history repeats itself. That's the scariest thing I can think of.

It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.

The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come.

And the dead will be commemorated and we'll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

HANNAH: It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where . . . where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which . . . is in its own way a disappointment. But.      There.

He has grown older, the skin around his eyes is cobwebbed with fine creases, and his hair's thinner, softer, suffused with gray. His brow has grown smoother.

We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

what was most unfair about being a teenager was the way time moved with such implacable slowness most of the time, only to evaporate into quicksilver at moments like this.

you know lovers walked here, felt the rising sun against their upturned faces here, anticipated tomorrow here, just not today.

You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.

The days stretch on, impossible and unfathomable. I wonder how can life be simultaneously so incredibly boring and so impossibly miraculous. The first of us to fall asleep wakes up the other.

In our rush to find a better situation in time, we trample over the flower of beingness that presents itself in every moment.

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

We arrive home in the evenings with little energy left for our families. We spend too little time thinking strategically and long term, too little time taking care of ourselves, and too little time simply enjoying our lives.

In another study, chronic procrastinators who set a specific time to complete a task were eight times as likely to follow through.

It's not how much time we invest into our work that determines our productivity but rather the value we produce during the hours we work.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Traveling can be boringly slow sometimes, even if you are effectively traveling at speeds faster than light.