Quotes About Time

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

Le temps est le péché de l'éternité.

He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful. - Tim Latimer

Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.

Hell is where time has stopped, where there's no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they'd vote for it.

It takes a while to become one of God's Good Women, and in the process you learn that you can't avoid every mistake or please everyone. There simply isn't time to be that uptight and rigid. God designed limits to your time, treasure, and talents so you wouldn't squander your life away. Recognizing your limited time here on earth can motivate you to say, "Good-bye, perfectionism, I don't have time for you!

Brian's Law. The longer you wait to write a thank-you note, the longer it must be.

PLENTIETH. Franklin P. Adams's adjective of indefinite older age, as in: "He is about to celebrate his plentieth birthday.

History is happening here and now.

None of us is going to get out of this world alive.

So if you can make something that appeals to people today and would also have appealed to people in 1500, there is a good chance it will appeal to people in 2500.

why can't I stop all the moving and look out over the vast arrangements and find by the contours and colors and qualities of light where my father is, not to solve anything but just simply even to see it again one last time, before what, before it ends, before it stops. But it doesn't stop; it simply ends. It is a final pattern scattered without so much as a pause at the end, at the end of what, at the end of this.

Boy to his dying grampa: I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius of years. I think that these years of days, this near century of years, is a gift from you.

The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.

But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people's work, would I ever work sixty hours?

I feel like I'm running in a figure of eight, don't know if I'm coming or going, early or late.

will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four

If you're the type of investor who has enough time to let somewhat risky stocks trend upward or who has enough money so that a loss won't devastate you financially, then growth stocks are definitely for you.

What should you do? Become an investor with a time horizon greater than one year (the emphasis is on "greater"). Give your investments time to grow.

Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

So We'll Go No More a-Roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.

You're never too old to be young.

A man's life will not come again, once it has slipped through his teeth. And no power on earth can bring it back. This is the mortal law. Then no longer will his bones be held together by wet sinews. Then no longer the soul flutter in his mouth. But by Death's blazing light, he is ground out and spent.

We have become a society that strives for the minimum standard, and this is how we live our lives. Failure to put in the desired time and effort will reward you with only middle-of-the-road performance.