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Quotes About Time

Sabía que mi reclamo había pasado de moda pero al rencor le gusta ser anacrónico
~ Xavier Velasco
Pasa uno tanto tiempo junto la miedo que le agarra confianza
~ Xavier Velasco
A un hombre se le empieza a comprar en veinticuatro horas; el resto lo negocias en diez minutos más.
~ Xavier Velasco
ella no lo sabe pero le estoy haciendo una promesa. Mañana es hoy
~ Xavier Velasco
Igual suenan las cinco de la mañana no hay nada escrito. Los semáforos aún grita ¡verde!, los ojos todavía ruegan ¡dame!, la noche se te estira y dictamina: ¡ten!
~ Xavier Velasco
I once heard you say that dealing with gods and dealing with men weren't such different things. A prince, you taught me, should honor both gods and men during his days of good fortune, so that both men and gods will remember him in his time of need."   True
~ Xenophon
On his youth, Yoshiro had prided himself of always having an answer ready when someone asked who his favorite composer or designer was, or what kind of wine he preferred. Confident in his good taste, he had poured time and money into surrounding himself with things that would show it off. Now he no longer felt any need to use taste as the bricks and mortar fora structure called «individuality».
~ Y?ko Tawada
Time could not be compared with any sort of food: nibble at it as greedily as you liked, there was never any less of it. Knut felt powerless in the face of time. Time was a huge ice block made of loneliness.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
~ Yann Martel
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
~ Yann Martel
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
~ Yann Martel
Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
~ Yann Martel
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
~ Yann Martel
Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
~ Yann Martel
Time is an illusion that only makes us pant.
~ Yann Martel
Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.
~ Yann Martel
Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
~ Yann Martel
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
~ Yann Martel
Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end.
~ Yann Martel
While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.
~ Yann Martel
I can well imagine that somewhere far off, 150 miles away, a ship's watch looked up, startled, and later reported the oddest thing, that he thought he heard a cat's meow coming from three o'clock. Days
~ Yann Martel
Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.
~ Yann Martel
Of the river of time, he worries neither about its spring nor its delta.
~ Yann Martel
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
~ Christopher Hitchens