Quotes About Time

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

If I am not for myself, who will be? But if i am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

Qué es lo que verían, qué es lo que escucharían decir a sus fantasmas? ¿Variarían de día en día, o de hora en hora, o su alucinación sería invariable y fija como una pesadilla que durara eternamente?

A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you.

Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.

Og til allersidst den helt nye, snigende bekymring for at livet skal glide forbi hende uden at hun får tag i det.

Time passed and my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an eye on herself.

Täytyy pitää kiirettä, että ennättää elää, minulta on mennyt kovin paljon aikaa hukkaan!

I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time." "Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.

I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85]

It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out.

Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.

Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and it goes. At first it just comes to you free of charge, and you don't understand, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture.

Ja, det forstår jeg. En går helst bare ut når en må. Eller når en har lyst. Det er vel best å vente, og kjenne etter.

What was it we were so busy with?" "Work, probably. And falling in love - that takes an awful lot of time.