Quotes About Time

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

and she reflected that thirty-five was a lot harder than twenty-five had been. She was pretty sure she was getting smarter, but she figured she was falling apart at the same rate. By the time she was seventy, she ought to be both brilliant and too decrepit to make any use of her hard-won knowledge.

I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.

Don't spend your whole life waiting for someday to come," he'd told Gigi on that trip. "You never know when you're going to run out of time.

She was beginning to think that the death of somebody you loved was like throwing rocks in a pond. Piles and piles of rocks: the ripples kept on spreading, disrupting the smooth surface of your life long after you'd lost track of where, exactly, the rocks went into the water.

The tide will come in and there won't be any more footprints. It's like our lives, right? Whatever we do before this moment in time, we can't do over. We have no choice in life but to keep moving ahead.

Men flourish only for a moment.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

El paisaje es un lienzo extendido en la distancia sobre el que la mirada piensa, donde la memoria ancestral se narra y la eternidad del momento se plasma en la nada superficial y profunda que está sucediendo en los tres tiempos del ser.

All happiness lasts but a moment, and the time that follows is only good for remembering what we have lost. —Homero Aridjis, Persephone (Vintage, 1986)

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Il ya toute une vie dans une heure d'amour.

Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.

El error de los hombres superiores es gastar los años de su juventud en hacerse dignos de la estimación de los demás.

A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others -- existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things.