Quotes About Time

The absolute, immutable, and inviolable supremacy of that will of God is the light which special revelation holds before our soul's eye at the end of time.

In de tijd dat ik veronderstelde een revolutionair te zijn liet ik mijn baard groeien. De revolutie kwam echter niet. Ik had te weinig idealen.

Zij zal nog leven als ik dood zal zijn, ze zal me misschien niet vergeten zijn als ik uit de voetnoten ben verdwenen.

zo is het leven. voor hetzelfde geld had ik helemaal ergens anders gezeten, met geheel andere mensen. maar ik stel me niet meer de vraag: 'waar ben ik?' ik ben nu eenmaal waar ik ben, en dat al vele jaren lang. ik vecht niet tegen het lot, want zo'n gevecht eindigt toch altijd in een gelijkspel. als ik maar dag na dag ouder word, ben ik al tevreden.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

Your time will come. But if it doesn't come, don't let that make no difference either.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

It's still the same old story,A fight for love and glory,A case of do or die!The world will always welcome lovers,As time goes by.

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss,A sigh is just a sigh;The fundamental things apply,As time goes by.

And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

The poor old Past,The Future's slave.

Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end--only in the end it becomes more obvious.

Money is a very pleasant thing, Willie, and I think you can trade almost anything for it wisely except the work you really want to do. If you sell out your time for a comfortable life, and give up your natural work, I think you lose the exchange. There remains an inner uneasiness that spoils the comforts.

for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt , who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt 's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

The objective world is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.

The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.