Quotes About Time

I am wasting my life. I am wasting my life. I am wasting my life. It pounds like a heartbeat.

swath of time that stretched out

Even still, it took a long time to feel much of anything again.

Everything we ever said to each other was in languages I'm starting to forget.

I look back on those days and it feels gluttonous, all that time and love and life ahead ...

Time is mercurial when you're with children. A whole morning making pancakes and playing freeze tag goes by in a minute, whereas waiting for Jasper to tie his shoes or catch up on his bike is endless.

The passion fades, the remorse is eternal.

You have no idea how quickly a girl grows up.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles--right and wrong--throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time.

It follows as a matter of course that a half-hour answer to a speech of an hour and a half can be but a very hurried one.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away.

I say today, that we will have no end to the slavery agitation until it takes one turn or the other. I do not mean that when it takes a turn toward ultimate extinction it will be in a day, nor in a year, nor in two years. I do not suppose that in the most peaceful way ultimate extinction would occur in less than a hundred years at least; but that it will occur in the best way for both races, in God's own good time, I have no doubt.

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

was. Laura saw it more as an opportunity to spend three months in

It is accepted that Father Time is, as subscribed, a Man, if not of male gender, time certainly is no kind friend to women.

As Linda says again and again, the simple life isn't the easy life. Each soul here is enormously courageous. The conflicts in their lives have not been trivial. It's taken most of them a great deal of time, introspection and explanation to arrive at their chosen sanity. They are intrepid explorers, leaving the security of the known for the hoped-for brighter tomorrow.

Linda Buckley-Archer