Quotes About Time

Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would be foolish to discard any of them.

You can't change the world in the space of a single conversation, can you?

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many lives before take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

History is a ship forever setting sail.

the hours plink past like water from a window a/c. we sweat it out, teach ourselves to wait. silently, lazily, collapse happens.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many live/before take-off, before we find ourselves/beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

We move in and out of rooms, leaving Our dust, our voices pooled on sills. We hurry from door to door in a downpour Of days. Old trees inch up, their trunks thick With new rings. All that we see grows Into the ground. And all we live blind to Leans its deathless heft to our ears and sings.

Time wounds all heals.

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.

BARBARA: You do understand that it hurts, to go from sharing a bed with you for twenty-three years to sleeping by myself. BILL: I'm here, now. BARBARA: Men always say shit like that, as if the past and the future don't exist. BILL: Can we not make this a gender discussion? BARBARA: Do men really believe that here and now is enough? It's just horseshit, to avoid talking about the things they're afraid to say.

People don't say "Work is money." They say "Time is money." We all instinctively understand this, but we also know deep down that there is something wrong with it.

But special people tend to go and do special things," he continued, "and one must accept it as best one can. Whenever I miss old friends, I remind myself that this very act makes them a part of my life. We may be separated by time and distance, and very often by the lack of hours to write each other proper letters, but we remain friends, and I remain grateful.

Shall I tell you what I'm thinking, Mrs. Ferrier?" "Heavens no, Nicholas! That would take hours, and we have only moments.

In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.

You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night.

He cranked the key until the watch was fully wound, then withdrew the key and held the watch to his ear.

Nine stitches?" S.Q. said. "No, Martina, I'm certain it's just one stitch." "No, a stitch in time saves nine," Martina scoffed. "Exactly," S.Q. replied.

A person needs a great deal of energy to stay awake all the time, and thus a great deal of food.

In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.

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There's a medical term for it, actually. It's called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.