Quotes About Time

Well sometimes things don't make sense right away, so you might as well put them aside and wait until they do" -Mom

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

You like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended. Forget all that, the world says. The world's had a lot of practice.

And of course you want the days to add up to something more than you came in and out of the sun and drank the potable water of your developed world--

You have a destination that doesn't include acting like this moment isn't inhabitable, hasn't happened before, and the before isn't part of the now as the night darkens and the time shortens between where we are now and where we are going.

Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.

La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación para la conciencia. Tenemos una educación que en cierto modo le está robando a la gente su conciencia, su tiempo y su vida

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

One does not need to be able to know the future; one only needs to be conversant with the past in order to guide the present, and the future will attend to itself

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just feels longer.

If you give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Fingernails filling with silt, scraping the sculpted...

Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river – but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself – a thing that went on caring.